Top 140 Curtis Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you’re doing.”

— Curtis Jackson

52. “I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.”

— Curtis Jackson

53. “Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they’re not confident enough to show you who they are, you don’t even know who they are.”

— Curtis Jackson

54. “Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.”

— Curtis Jackson

55. “When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?”

— Curtis Jackson

56. “It’s not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it’s funny.”

— Curtis Jackson

57. “I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.”

— Curtis Jackson

58. “They don’t understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself...”

— Curtis Jackson

59. “I’ve got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.”

— Curtis Jackson

60. “There had to be a better way – if I couldn’t find it, I wanted to create it.”

— Curtis Jackson

61. “I don’t have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.”

— Curtis Jackson

62. “You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.”

— Curtis Jackson

63. “I don’t need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you’re not one.”

— Curtis Jackson

64. “I can’t have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.”

— Curtis Jackson

65. “A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.”

— Curtis Jackson

66. “If you’re not doin anything and you don’t have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.”

— Curtis Jackson

67. “When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn’t have with my father.”

— Curtis Jackson

68. “Being broke is against my religion.”

— Curtis Jackson

69. “People who actually have money don’t want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.”

— Curtis Jackson

70. “If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you’re going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.”

— Curtis Jackson

71. “If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?”

— Curtis Jackson

72. “My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned – the pastor had his own agenda – and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. ‘Grandpa ain’t going; I’m gonna stay with Grandpa.’”

— Curtis Jackson

73. “Everybody mad when their paper don’t stack right.”

— Curtis Jackson

74. “I’ve made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I’m so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I’m a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it...”

— Curtis Jackson

75. “I’ll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I’ll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.”

— Curtis Jackson

76. “50 Cent is a metaphor for “change”. But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he’s not active, I thought it’d be cool to take it.”

— Curtis Jackson

77. “I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain’t eligible for that.”

— Curtis Jackson

78. “Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.”

— Curtis Jackson

79. “I get photobombed by the hottest people in the world.”

— Curtis Jackson

80. “For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I’ve got it, it just sits on my drive.”

— Curtis Jackson

81. “The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.”

— Curtis Jackson

82. “When I put out my first mixtape, ‘50 Cent is the Future,’ it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.”

— Curtis Jackson

83. “My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it.”

— Curtis Jackson

84. “Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them.”

— Curtis Jackson

85. “I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.”

— Curtis Jackson

86. “If I’m focused while I’m strokin I could change how you walk.”

— Curtis Jackson

87. “When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you’re gonna bring the money. You’re the cash cow.”

— Curtis Jackson

88. “Anybody who says that money don’t change you – they only say that because they don’t make enough.”

— Curtis Jackson

89. “Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.”

— Curtis Jackson

90. “If I didn’t smell so good would you still hug me?”

— Curtis Jackson

91. “I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.”

— Curtis Jackson

92. “You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.”

— Curtis Jackson

93. “Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn’t end.”

— Curtis Jackson

94. “Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can’t even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.”

— Curtis Jackson

95. “True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren’t afraid.”

— Curtis Jackson

96. “Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It’s difficult to adjust to not have someone around that’s in your life, in your life.”

— Curtis Jackson

97. “A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don’t understand, and I think it’s jealousy.”

— Curtis Jackson

98. “My description of fun would be to sit on someone’s couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I’m in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they’re saying.”

— Curtis Jackson

99. “There’s a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it’s a small group that actually has it.”

— Curtis Jackson

100. “I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I’m saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain’t gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.”

— Curtis Jackson