Kanye West

As a musician, African American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things, you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me, and then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn’t say it out loud or my career would be over, or I’d get kicked out of the black community – because blacks, we’re supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only be Democrats.

We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West

It was heartbreaking for me to have to leave Nike, but they refused to allow me to get royalty on my shoe and I knew I had the hottest shoe in the world.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Aim for the highest

Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Due diligence equals increasing your financial IQ daily.

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

Difficulties break some men but make others.