Kanye West

Maybe I shouldn’t have these dreams and aspirations. Maybe I should have given up on life ten years ago and stopped fighting for my truth.

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 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.

There is nothing more stuntastic than rapping in front of an orchestra.

A designer told me that my wife was a master of light and I was a master of time.

Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also thoughtful.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

You’ll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.