Kanye West

There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.

I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y’all.

I don’t really get nervous, I prepare. When the music messed up in the beginning, it tapped into my nerves and when you’re nervous and vulnerable, something special and something different can happen.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

Anyone who doesn’t give [his debut album, The College Dropout] a perfect score is lowering the integrity of the magazine

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.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Debt is the worst poverty.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.