Rick Ross Quotes

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

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

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.

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.

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

Every boss started as a worker.

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

How many people you bless is how you measure success

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

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

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

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

Woman is the most precious gift known to man.

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.

These haters can't hold me back.

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.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

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

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

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.

I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

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.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

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

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.

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

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

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

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

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

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste

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.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what you want to do, just like any mayor. You can park your car anywhere. You get the best women. You go to the restaurants and eat free. It was like being a rock star. Like being Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. It was just pure freedom, everything I was looking for. I desperately wanted freedom.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

Nah, that's not true.

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.

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

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.

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

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.