Rick Ross Quotes

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.

Two, let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let's all have a beautiful year, let's get this money.

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.

Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front.

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

Every boss started as a worker.

Through "deprogramming" or cult intervention the only issues that are addressed focus upon the specific group and group involvement. The subject of such an intervention subsequently may leave the group and go on with their life reassuming their own basic individual values and beliefs.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.

I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."

Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.

I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.

I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Woman is the most precious gift known to man.

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and a girl came up to me and said, "Man, the only people they talk about around here are Michael Jackson and you." It was pretty flattering to be considered in the same light as the king of pop in my area.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

Really, every day is the perfect day to boss up. Every day that you wake up is a perfect day to boss up. It's all about continuing to put one foot in front of the next. That's what it's about. Whatever you think you're going through, just put one foot in front of the next.

At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

Nah, that's not true.

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

These haters can't hold me back.

However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.