Best quotes by Jay-Z

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

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

You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

I believe you can speak things into existence.

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self.

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Life is a gift, love opens it up.

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.