I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

No man can outrun Logic or Time.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

Why do we wear clothes? Genesis!