Instead of trying to build a brick wall, lay a brick everyday. Eventually, you’ll look up and you’ll have a brick wall

You will never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you. You will only be criticized by someone who is doing less than you. Remember that.

I’m about seeing long-term, seeing a vision, understanding nothing really worthwhile happens overnight, and just sticking to your script long enough to make something real happen

If it wasn’t for the music being my outlet, I’d probably be hustlin’. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to go and get a nine-to-five—I never finished high school or none of that

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off ‘Mailbox Money’ than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Most of the time, when it rains it starts pouring, but how we grind it makes the weather change for us

I look at it like the game is gonna test you. Everything’s gonna test you if it’s worthwhile and you’re gonna make decisions based on what you care about more

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk

If you do it, be the best at it

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

It’s strictly business in this game, still they faking friendly. Don’t let them take advantage of you.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So, I just fought everybody

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Most important thing is to get rid of doubt. If you have doubt in what you’re doing, it’s not gonna work

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Constant repetition is the path to progression.

Without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be real hard to accomplish anything

Don’t worry ’bout what people gon’ say. Girl, do what you want to

I’m the type of person where my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with

You gotta go hard, you gotta believe in yourself.

Finish what we started, reach them heights, you know?

Any time a country transitioned to a flat currency, they collapsed. That’s just world history. You don’t have to know about cryptocurrency to know that

If you have strong faith, your God will love you

Victory’ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself

If you don’t have a plan, it’s very hard to really have faith in what you’re doing ’cause soon as something pops up, it’s gonna look like the end-all

Get on your marathon ’til you bruise your feet.

I’m more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything

An artist always knows everything he does. You know what I’m saying—all the records he starts and don’t end up in the public and just sit on the harddriver

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

I went through every emotion with what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon’ separate whoever’s gonna go for something, that you ain’t gonna quit

Most of the time, I look inside, and find the answers waiting

A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don’t establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It’s just that they’re a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it’s real hard for me

Once you found the real it’s hard to tolerate the plastic

I hit the league straight out the streets with no talent scout.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer

Victory Lap,’ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error

Put my right hand to God, shine on these broads. Stay on my job, grind with my squad

What good is a team, when everyone depends on you?

Seize the opportunity, believe, and take control of it. Then get on your marathon and grind it ’til it’s over with

One small misunderstanding can show you exactly how a person really feels about you

Don’t waste your time, it doesn’t make you rich.

Started out the trunk, ended up at the dealership

My God will never make me and break me. I have faith

I went hard for the chips ’cause the odds were against us.

Don’t expect from others—put in your own work

Turning up my hustle’s how I give myself a raise.

I’m focusing on the music, but I still have a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to

Hoping as you walk across the sand you see my shoeprint.

As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we’re the effect of a situation. We didn’t wake up and create our own mind-state and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts

Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that’ll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being

Get everything you want, then go back and get some more

If you don’t know your full-throttle history—the whole story of how you came to where you are—it’s kind of hard to put things together

I feel that luck is a product of hard work

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there’s a difference, know what I mean?

We’re not the cause. We’re the effect

I always had a passion for rap music and I was always trying to create a situation where I could do this full-time

I knew I wanted to work for myself when I was about eleven

I call it ‘dropping the rope.’ You’ve got to drop a rope. Everybody got to climb up, but you gotta drop the rope.

We got turned down, we failed, had setbacks, had to start over a lot of times. But we kept going at it. In anybody’s case, that’s always the distinguishing factor

I’m at peace with what I’m doing. I feel good about what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Ain’t nobody gave us nothing. I just got my own

The company you keep has a large influence on the situations you bring to yourself.

Material things ain’t nothing, you feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you are. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.

It’s as big as you wanna make it and, you know, it’s as far as you take it

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dream

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Luck is just being prepared at all times, so when the door opens, you’re ready

If you’re going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don’t love it, then we don’t need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion

I graduated from having haters now I see it all as fake love.

I am an anomaly in my space. The way I exist is unique

I’m tryna live my life, so when it’s over, I have no regrets

We act on how we think, and never speak on how we feel

Success, to me, is just being able to do what you love to do and support yourself all through

And it can be as simple as it seems, if you never doubt yourself and learn from everything you see, no wishing on a star can turn your life into a dream

My thing is that I don’t give no person that much power over my path that I’m walking. Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God

Hoping what I’m doing truly makes my mama proud, ‘cause for a very long time, I was the reason for her frowns.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets

I never wanted to alienate my brand for business. I always wanted to keep it authentic and keep it as pure as I could

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Dedication, hard work, plus patience.

I was never ignorant as far as being experienced in classrooms, and learning about different subjects, and actually soaking it up

Obviously, from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I’ve been holdin’ my own since that age

I try to sprinkle little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

When you say ‘follow me on Twitter,’ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in

To me, respect comes first

I just believe in ownership. I believe in investing in yourself. Your foundation should be strong

Before rap, my last name was my lifestyle, and when I visualize success, it looked like right now.

Hope opportunities don’t knock when there are opportunists in your group.

When it’s all over, all that counts is how the story’s told

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth

I always had faith in my creative capacity

Study your queen so you can give her what she wants without asking.

If I wasn’t involved in this hip-hop, I’d probably be breakin’ the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I’m used to

On a mission, your worst enemy is idle time.

And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce

I respect Snoop even aside from the music—just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He’s done it successfully and has still been able to balance it

Having strong enemies is a blessing

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is. There’s always something you can do. You may not always have the necessary tools and resources, but you always have something. Being self-made also means being comfortable working with what you have.

I hate to lose, so I play too rough

Come to my hood I’ll show you desperation.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid

Be your own biggest fan, your own biggest believer, and put it on your back and carry the weight

Create a plan and then attack it. A dream without a plan is a wish.

Ownership is everything. Own your mind, mind your own

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics

When you let go of your pride, you’ll find a lesson in your pain.

Sometimes, people, they too, destroy you—precisely because they recognize your power not because they don’t see it , but because they see it, and they don’t want it to exist

Every artist wants something different out of the game.

Cause if you share your success and not your struggle, you’re a fool.

And we were raised wrong but we stayed strong and we kept it real, we got faked on

First get ‘yo grind on, then get yo’ shine on.

If you’re a hustler, you should find somewhere to capitalize off that and turn it into some money

Get that dirt up off your shoulder, step yo game up

I took my wildest dreams then mapped them out.

Life is just a fight against your disbeliefs

I was raised differently because even if you wish me the worst, I will still wish you the best

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out of the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Been stabbed in my heart so much, I learned to smile while I bleed

The best thing you can do for a person is to inspire them. That’s the best currency you can offer—inspiration.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you have a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever

We are playing the long game. We don’t want the money to stop when we go, when we can’t work no more. We want it to outlive us, we want it to be generational

I’m not into trading ownership of the only asset I have, which is my intellectual property.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening

I think you can make a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Every step is like chess—the wrong move gets you killed

Spoke some things into the universe and they appeared, I say it’s worth it, I won’t say it’s fair. Find your purpose or you wastin’ air

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The game will test you never fold. Stay ten toes down. It’s not on you, it’s in you. And what’s in you, they can never take away

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already

Be truthful with yourself and other people, and try your best to make decisions outside of your ego.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it gets taken from you quick

Play the game like I’ve never won once

People, if you break down the music, you could find the truth

If what I believe is proved to be wrong, then I guess I’m a miracle