“…How you get so fly? From not being afraid to fall out the sky…”
from Beach Chair, Kingdom Come
Insight: The only way to overcome fear is to face it.
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“…I’m not a businessman. I’m a business…maaaannn…”
from Diamonds Are Forever Remix
Insight: Like businesses, individuals need visions, strategies, partnerships, positioning, constant evaluation and accountability, etc. See The C.E.O. of You.
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“…Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself…”
from A Dream, Blueprint 2
Insight: We are fully responsible for our being. We are co-creators (with God) of our lives and can be whoever we choose to be.
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“…I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not trying…”
from Beach Chair, Kingdom Come
Insight: Failure is underrated. To not try is worse than failing.
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“…I’m far from God, but I work god damn hard…”
from Breath Easy, The Blueprint
Insight: To create like the Creator takes hard work.
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“…I spring train in the winter, around early December…”
from Breath Easy, The Blueprint
Insight: He who practices the most is most prepared to win.
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If I don’t show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
December 2007 XXL Interview
Insight: Things that stagnate don’t last long.
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I love that because that’s what I’m supposed to be doing – whether it’s accepted b everybody or not. I’m supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, “Hov, you might have went too far”.
December 2007 XXL Interview
Insight: If people aren’t looking at you funny, then you’re not pushing the envelope.
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I love what I’m doing. I love the artist I’m developing. I love the whole thing about it. Once again, I have to really look at it for the next three years and say, “Am I doing it for the right reasons?” ‘Cause all I want to do is make history at this point. They got to pay me to make history of course. But that’s my goal. I want to sit there with people really into making history. I mean everybody. I don’t mean just artists. The interns -if everybody’s not committed to making history every time I go into a meeting, and if I can’t look into their eyes and I don’t see the fire, then I gotta move on. ‘ Cause, you know, I don’t have time. I don’t have the luxury of time to just blow off three years. I do, but I don’t. But I’m not looking to have a job. That’s not hot!
December 2007 XXL Interview
Insight: It’s about making history. Music is just to the tool.
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Ain’t nothing wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
from American Dreamin’, American Gangsta
Insight: We are perfect as you are. Sometimes we just need to re-purpose ourselves in another market (i.e increasing the value of “junk” by re-purposing it as “antiques”)
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“I’m a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.”
Insight: Let the creative energy guide you. Don’t dictate too much.
HipHopDX Interview
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If you know of other worthwhile Jay-Z quotes for personal growth, please comment below.
Here’s what my readers added:
“Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.”
from My 1st Song, The Black Album
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“I will not lose for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned so it evens up for me.”
from Blueprint 2, The Blueprint 2
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“what tomorrow has in store we could never be sure so all we can do is pray”
from Pray, American Gangster
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“I can’t base what I’m gon’ be off what everybody isn’t”
from So Ambitious, Blueprint 3
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“If ya’ll can’t already see i aint worried about ya’ll cos i’m already me”
from Already Home, Blueprint 3
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“I’m in the hall already, on the wall already
I’m a work of art, im a Warhol already
On another level, on another plane already
H-O-V i got my own lane already (already)”
from Already Home, Blueprint 3
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“i’m talking about progress i ain’t looking back,
you know i run track, try not to get lapped,
people talking about Hov left em flat,
trying to rewrite history lets talk about that”
from What We Talkin’ About, Blueprint 3
* Jay-Z on Personal Success in Best Life Magaz
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“difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week.” – Diamonds remix
Hey, just wanted to point out a correction ….”how you get so fly? From not being afraid to fall out the sky”…. is from “Beach Chair” not “A Dream”…. and the quote you have up there…. “nobody built like you, you design yourself”… is from “A Dream” on Blueprint 2, not Beach Chair. You need to switch em up.
I WILL NOT LOSE….to me that is one of Jay-Z most inspirational quotes….it speaks for itself
oh i can’t forget:
i got demons in my past, so i got daughters on the way and if the prophecy is correct then the child shall had to pay for the sins of the father so i borrowed my tomorrows against my yesterdays
And a drought can define a man when the well drys up you learn the worth of water without work you thirst til you die yep.
from December 4th “Black Album”
“If you can’t respect that your whole perspective is whack, maybe you’ll love me when I fade to black…”
“I want money like Cosby who wouldn’t”
from Dead Presidents,
… And my mind is moving just like them, the rims that is.
Moment of Clarity, Black Album
“I dont follow any guidelines, cause too many niggas ride mines, so i change styles every two rhymes… Ooooooooo.. thats twenty two too’s for ya’ll motha fuckas know what i mean?”
I a am far being God, but I work God dam hard
“I’d rather die enormous than live dormant…”
from “Can I Live”, Reasonable Doubt
gotta tell you niggas what time it is like movado, my motto stack rocks like colorado!
“Nobody will fall, everyone will be each other’s crutches” –from Feelin’ It, Reasonable Doubt
I get my “by any means” on whenever there’s a drought. Get your umbrellas out cuz that’s when I brainstorm
I ain’t talkin to nobody in particular my flow is just vehicular homicide when I’m kickin up dust. Anyone in my path its a car crash waitin to happen, nigga what?
If ya’ll haven’t heard, I’m Michael, Magic and Bird all rolled in one, cuz none got more flows than Young, plus got more flows to come. And if I’m not better than BIG, I’m the closest one.
9 to 5 is how u survive. I aint trying to survive im tryna live it to the limit and love it a lot.
“Had to get off the boat so i can walk on water”
Im not a busines man, am a BUSINESS!, man!, let me handle my business damn….
I Sell, Ice In Winter, Fire In Hell, Im A Hustler Baby, Il Sell Water To A Well
“what tomorrow has in store we could never be sure so all we can do is pray”
Pray-Jay-Z
My moms crying cause her insides are dying
her son trying her patience, keep her heart racing
A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit
but it’s this game love, I’m caught up all in it
They make it so you can’t prevent it, never give it
you gotta take it, can’t fake it I keep it authentic
Do you know why the call the”Projects” the projects?cause it’s project,an expirement and we’re in it only as objects.:do you wanna ride?-Kingdome come
in my former business,motherfuckers would spray ya… and in the music business mutherfuckes just say stuff
they used say rappin’ at 38 was ill,
last year alone I grossed 38 mil
police in the background
screamin’ put that thing down
that was how hard I was tryin’ to my thing down
Hustle cane , hustle clothes, or hustle music, but hustle hard in any hustle that you pick. – no hook , american gangster
half a mill for bail cuz i'm African… All becuz dis fool was harassin em.. tryna play the boy like he Saccaharin!!
"on the rise to the top many drop, don't forget it in order to survive got to learn to live with regrets " regrets – reasonable doubt
Magazine says I'm shallow I'll never learn to swim. Still they puttin me on there cover cuz I earn for them. Soon as I sell too much watch em turn on him. . . Life and times of Sean Carter.
"somebody's pulling me close to the ground !! i ain't panicked , i was there before " intro – in my lifetime vol 1
“Far from a harvard student, just had the balls to do it.”
“hey look i heard alot of people say im the luckiest man
on planet,i like to think i stay ready.i wiseman once said
“lucky isnt some mystical energy that dances around the world
bestowing peole with satisfaction and joy,you create your own luck”
fade to black
…May the best of your todays, be the worst of your tomarrows…
You can’t change a players game in the 9th ending.
Reasonable Doubt.Jay-Z
“I was born to get cake, move on and switch states/ Cop the coupe with the roof gone and switch plates/ Was born to dictate never follow orders dickface get ya shit straight fucka this is Big Jay”
from U Dont Know – Blueprint
I put my feet in the footprints left to me
Without saying a word
The ghetto’s got a mental telepathy
“Allure” on The Black Album
9 to 5 is how you survive but I aint tryna survive, I’m trying live it to the limit and love it alive. . .
“I track money, my worst color is light green…my favorite hue is Jay-Z Blue”- Dope Boys Go Crazy (remix)
We used to fight for building blocks
Now we fight for blocks with buildings that make a killing
The closest of friends when we first started
But grew apart as the money grew, and soon grew black-hearted
Thinking back when we first learned to use rubbers
He never learned so in turn I’m kidnapping his baby’s mother
My hand around her collar, feeding her cheese
She said the taste of dollars was shitty so I fed her fifties – D’Evils
…a lot of speculation
on the monies I’ve made, honeys I’ve slayed
How is he for real? Is that nigga really paid?
Hustlers I’ve met or, dealt with direct
Is it true he slay the beef and slept with a tech?
What’s the position you hold? Can you really match
a triple platinum artist buck by buck by only a single goin gold?
Roc-A-Fella ship fold, and you’re left out in the cold
Is it back to charging motherfuckers 11 for an O
For the millionth time askin me
Questions like Wendy Williams, harrassin me
then get upset when I catch feelings- A Million and 1 Questions
I move onward, the only direction.
Can’t be scared to fail, in the search of perfection.
On To The Next One, Blueprint 3
my pops knew exactly wat he did when he made me, tryn get a nut and he got a nut and what..
i was conceiceved by gloria carter and anagnus reeves, who made love under a sycamore tree.. which makes me a more sicka mc my momma would claim at ten pounds when i was born i didnt give her no pain..
-dec. 4
our father i brooklyn dodge of them, i jack, i rob, i sin.. aww man im jackie robinson except when i run base i dodge the pin..
- we go hard
hov is back, life story told thru rap, niggas acting like i sold u crack.. like i told u to sell drugs, nah hov did that so hopefully u wont have to go thru that..
My Hustle is so Russel