Kanye West

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

I’ll take opinions from anyone from Jay-Z to a janitor, and I might value the janitor’s opinion more.

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 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.

A black person can’t be imperfect in the public eye, that’s a form of control.

If there’s anything that I can do with my time and my day to somehow make a difference, while I’m alive, imma try to do it. Period.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it – fight back!

Every choice you make has an end result.

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.

Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.

Due diligence equals increasing your financial IQ daily.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

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

Sometimes if you’re lucky someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart no one else can fill.

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

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.