In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Imagination decides everything.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Genius is patience.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.