Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Business
  • Start
  • Christmas

• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Men
  • Child
  • Fact

• That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Water

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Girl

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Lie
  • Data

• I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • School
  • Business
  • Job

• You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Interesting
  • Songs
  • Touring

• Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • House
  • Spirit
  • Give

• He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Help
  • Player

• I definitely inherited a lot of from both my grandmothers and from my mother. I wear a lot of pieces that used to belong to other people.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • People
  • Mother

• I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

  

  Jay-Z
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