MC Hammer Quotes

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

We got to pray just to make it today.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas.

You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

I always believe that the sky is the beginning of the limit.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

I have to wear six pairs of speedos when I run.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, like it’s not going to happen.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.

I intend to put them on the charts.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.