Kanye West

Sometimes you get educated by being really bothered by things and you have to educate yourself on how to respond.

[on Glastonbury] I started off the show and I completely messed up the music. And me, as you can imagine by this phone call, I’m a bit of a perfectionist. So it really put me into a slightly depressed state.

Because I talk so much shit they give me overcredit just to shut me up!

I promise you, you’re going to see a new Ye. You’re going to feel the impact of the new relationships and the new ideas and the exposure that I’ve gathered. It’s about to be applied now.

We don’t want to be influenced, just informed.

I’m going to Adidas, ‘Adidas, I know you’ve never made a shoe under $50 but we have to make a shoe that costs $30 and it’s going to be coolest shoe of all.’

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient and the best things come to those who don’t give up.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

The real risk is doing nothing.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

If you haven’t found it yet keep looking.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Dream big and dare to fail.