Kanye West is a pop culture icon with record sales of over 140 million and 21 Grammy awards. He is a fashion designer (Nike and Louis Vuitton) and entrepreneur, and his net financial worth exceeds a billion dollars.
Kanye West is famous for being Kanye West, an American rapper and married to Kim Kardashian. Kanye West worked his way up the music business despite opposition from the establishment. He wrote and recorded his debut album while recovering from a car accident that left him with a shattered jaw. He recorded a song about the experience with his jaw wired following surgery. His debut album (The College Dropout) sold 2.6 million copies, and Kanye West was on the road to superstardom.
It really matters and then like it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the people who are sparked by it. And the people who are like offended by it, it doesn’t matter. Because its about motivating the doers. Because I’m here to follow my dreams and inspire other people to follow their dreams, too.
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The Kanye West story shows how you can achieve your dreams if you work hard and believe in yourself. Kanye West was not an overnight success; he worked and invested in himself – he writes his songs using the raw material of his life to make a connection with his fans. His career to date shows that you need to watch out for opportunities – like becoming a fashion designer and setting up his businesses.
The most important lesson that Kanye West teaches by example is the power of passionately pursuing your goals and refusing to be stopped by obstacles. He refused to believe he couldn’t be a rapper because he didn’t grow up learning to hustle on the streets.
Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.
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Someone leaked his first album before it was released – he didn’t give up; he chose to rewrite and rework all his songs an make the album better than it was before. For Kanye West, challenges are there to make you perform better.
Your ambitions and talents may lie in a different area to Kanye West, but you can choose to follow your dreams and work tirelessly towards achieving your goals. All it takes is self-belief and hard work. Read the Kanye West quotes for inspiration to persevere and work hard in achieving your goals.
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Kanye West Quotes
Most people are slowed down by the perception of themselves. If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything. I was taught I can do everything.
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I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
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It’s crazy that we live in a world where if you’re super positive and super creative…it’s scary. Because what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if you’re scared of like…positivity.
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Everything I’m not makes me everything I am
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Go listen to my music. It’s the code of self-esteem. It’s the code of who you are. If you’re a Kanye West fan you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself.
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For me giving up is way harder than trying.
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I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
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If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.
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The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.
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Love your haters – they’re your biggest fans.
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Every time I say something that is extremely truthful, out loud…it literally breaks the internet. So what are we getting all the rest of the time.
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Believe in your flyness…conquer your shyness.
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People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
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..my music isn’t just music- its medicine.
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We’re not always in the position that we want to be at. We’re constantly growing We’re constantly making mistakes. We’re constantly trying to express ourselves and actualize our dreams.
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Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.
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It’s bigger than me. It’s about while I was here on earth what did I do to help.
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Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.
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You’ve got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you’re just everyone else.
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I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.
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I want people to feel like it’s ok to create. It’s ok to not be boxed in. I want people to feel like, awesome is possible.
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I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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We were born into a broke world, and were like the clean up crew.
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Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap… I wonder if they’re clapping because they liked what they saw or because they’re happy it’s over?
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I don’t care about having a legacy, I don’t care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we’re here, while we’re having fun, while we’re sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy…what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.
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I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won’t even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.
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I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn’t come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
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My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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We have to understand that we’re not each others enemy.
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To use is necessary. And if you can’t be used, then you’re useless.
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I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.
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That that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger.
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The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?
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Success is the best revenge.
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Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity…we’re 1 people.
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If you know you’re the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS.
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People don’t stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.
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They say ya additude determines ya laditude…
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I’m not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.
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homie I’m graduated
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People always tell you to be humble, be humble, be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great. To be amazing. To be awesome.
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The prettiest people do the ugliest things.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you have to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate their moment until it’s passed.
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I’ve known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.
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People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.
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I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books … I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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My life is dope and I do dope shit.
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I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
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George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
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George Bush doesn’t care about black people…
They’re saying black families are looting and
white families are just looking for food…
they’re giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.”
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I am flawed as a human. I am flawed as a person. As a man I am flawed…… but my music is perfect!
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Take your diamonds and throw em up like you’re bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.
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I don’t care about what people think, because people don’t think.
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In the night, I hear ’em talk. Coldest story ever told. Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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The plan was,we drink untill the pain is over but whats worse,the pain or the hangover?
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I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.
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I always felt like I could do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by! Thoughts- their perception of themselves! They’re slowed down by their perception of themselves. If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything. I was taught I could do everything. And I’m Kanye West at age 36.
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Let’s go on a living free, they say the best things in life are free.
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People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?
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I just needed time alone with my own thoughts. Got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault
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Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.
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I wonder…would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.
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Success is the best revenge.
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Got staples on my dick. Why? Fucking centerfolds.
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I’m so gifted at findin’ what I don’t like the most.
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I’m not interested in things unless they hit me in a certain place in my heart. I get bored really easily. I’m like majorly underwhelmed in general.
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Less talk more head right now, huh?
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The most beautiful thoughts are always besides the darkest.
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Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success.
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Love is cursed by monogamy.
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Where I’m from the dopeboys is the rockstars, but they can’t cop cars without seeing cop cars. I guess they want us all behind bars. I know it.
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Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Shit is real. You’re not going to find a chink. It’s 100,000 percent Jimi Hendrix.
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You cut me deep bitch,cut me like surgery.
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The greatest gift you have is your now…you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the past is the past.
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I didn’t play the cards I was dealt. I changed the cards.
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As a creative your ideas are your strongest form of currency.
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You drive in a Maybach past a homeless person and you ask, ‘Who’s more free?’ You could be trapped to your possessions.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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