Top 90 Damon Dash Quotes

I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.

I think I’m extraordinarily motivated.

Being independent is everything. That’s all I know.

I love music, but the people in the music don’t wanna work.

It’s important for people to believe in themselves.

I’m not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude’s doing.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

I’m gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn’t expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn’t in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don’t know what you expect.

You speak things into existence, but there’s a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.

I have been diabetic since I was young.

If you remember ‘The Best of Both Worlds,’ you don’t see my name on that… I never wanted no part of that.

I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people’s stuff if I have a point of view?

I never really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don’t think anything that I’ve done reflects that.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

It’s incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another’s dude’s pockets and have that matter and argue about that.

Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.

If I can’t do things to the fullest, I don’t want to do it.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much – I don’t want to say infatuated, but I’m impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, ‘This is not easy at all.’

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It’s important if you want to create a successful brand.

I’m knee-deep into fashion; I’m knee-deep into movies.

The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I’ve been saying I’m diabetic; it’s just, people don’t write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren’t spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.

I’m a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don’t have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I’m going to tell you the truth, I’m going to address the elephant in the room, and we’ll all move forward.

I become friendly with people I work with.

There’s certain lines you just don’t cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.

It’s very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

I work to go on vacation. Hopefully, the more money I make, my vacations will get a little longer to the point where they last a year.

Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it’s not going to be for everybody.

I’m not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude’s doing.

Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business.

I’m an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I’m actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it’s support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don’t ever want to have to compromise; I don’t ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don’t ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

I’m not a mogul; I’m a tycoon.

Every little thing I’ve done as an adult and as a young adult, I’ve done diabetic.

I’m an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I’m actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it’s support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

A ‘Roc-A-Fella purist’ is me.

Just cause you don’t agree with a man, ’cause you’re black, don’t mean you gotta fight, argue. You just have a different perspective.

Everything that scared me is losing people I love, and everyone that I really love, as it relates to females, I’ve lost. So what it’s made me be is the animal that I am because I don’t want to sit down and think about the things that are hurting me, but, you know.

Look at my life. I ain’t got nothing to be mad about.

A real man won’t ask or answer questions about another man’s money.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you’re listening to is saying the right stuff, and that’s all that really counts.

It’s hard not to be confident when you put in business the biggest black male in comedy, Kevin Hart. I know I took him off a stage and put him in his first four movies. I know I did that.

When you’re a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you’re laundering money or you’re pretending you’re writing things off that you don’t.

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.

I don’t like to be considered a ‘hip-hop mogul.’ I don’t know what that means.

Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it’s not going to be for everybody.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it’s funny. Let’s make some money from it. Just don’t take it so serious, man.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don’t ever want to have to compromise; I don’t ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don’t ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

Those people are corny. You think I’m rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

I’m sick of talking about it. I wanna talk about something else. No more Jay Z questions. I answered them.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

How can another man call another man boss? That’s like calling another man ‘Daddy.’

If I have an accountant that just reports I just invested $10 million in my business, and he doesn’t exactly itemize where every cost goes, it gives a flag to the government. They want to make sure that the reason I’m not paying taxes is because I’m reinvesting in these businesses and not trying to hide stuff.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

The worst disrespect of all time is to disrespect someone’s children.

My delivery can be intense, but it’s intense because I need to be heard. I know that people don’t usually listen, as it relates to constructive criticism, without getting offended. So, I speak my mind with an attitude that I don’t care if you get offended; I just want you to get the message.

Everyone I put in business, I must’ve taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven’t done right by me, but it’s all gravy.

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I’m going to speak on it every time.

If I can’t do things to the fullest, I don’t want to do it.

I don’t wanna be yelling all my life. How loud did I have to yell to say that Jay-Z was the man and the best rapper of all time?

I monetized my life so I never do anything that I don’t like or that I’m not participating in 100 percent.

It’s important to be enlightened.

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don’t know what you expect.

It’s important to be enlightened.

What I’ve been noticing with the milennials is that they’ll pay for quality.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I’m the boss.

I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone’s help.

I don’t complain about other people’s game – I just create my own.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

I’m gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

I’m sick of talking about it. I wanna talk about something else. No more Jay Z questions. I answered them.

If you remember ‘The Best of Both Worlds,’ you don’t see my name on that… I never wanted no part of that.

I’m proud of Jay Z’s success and Kanye’s success. Inside, I feel like I had something to do with their success… I don’t have anything but positive things to say.

It’s funny: when the press knows someone’s gonna say something stupid, they’re quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

I fire lawyers frequently.