What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.
Curtis JacksonWhen I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.
Curtis JacksonHate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
Curtis JacksonMy confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.
Curtis JacksonWhen a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?
Curtis JacksonA Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
Curtis JacksonPower is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.
Curtis JacksonSleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.
Curtis JacksonI done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that
Curtis JacksonDeath is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch.
Curtis JacksonThe opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
Curtis JacksonA big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.
Curtis JacksonA man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power`s an aphrodisiac.
Curtis JacksonYou have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.
Curtis JacksonWhen I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
Curtis JacksonJust be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.
Curtis JacksonI don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.
Curtis JacksonIf you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.
Curtis JacksonIf you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.
Curtis JacksonObama is for same-sex marriage. If the President is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
Curtis JacksonI love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.
Curtis JacksonReality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel
Curtis JacksonThe public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.
Curtis JacksonThe competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.
Curtis JacksonIf I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.
Curtis JacksonIf you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.
Curtis JacksonI don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.
Curtis JacksonI was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.
Curtis JacksonEvery morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.
Curtis JacksonI had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
Curtis JacksonBecause hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
Curtis JacksonWhen you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.
Curtis JacksonIf you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.
Curtis JacksonReal man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.
Curtis JacksonMy son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.
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