Damon Dash

“I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.”

“My delivery can be intense, but it's intense because I need to be heard. I know that people don't usually listen, as it relates to constructive criticism, without getting offended. So, I speak my mind with an attitude that I don't care if you get offended; I just want you to get the message.”

“I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.”

“I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.”

“Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.”

“I'm sick of talking about it. I wanna talk about something else. No more Jay Z questions. I answered them.”

“It's hard not to be confident when you put in business the biggest black male in comedy, Kevin Hart. I know I took him off a stage and put him in his first four movies. I know I did that.”

“Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.”

“I think that the better sign of an OG is when he's happy that the person that he raised got bigger than him and in a position where they could help.”

“Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'”

“A 'Roc-A-Fella purist' is me.”

“The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.”

“I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.”

“I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?”

“If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?”

“When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.”

“Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.”

“You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.”

“I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.”

“I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.”