I wasn't satisfied just earning a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.

I have no fear, I have no m*th*f*ck*n fear, I have only ambition. I want mine, and I will do anything to feed and protect my family.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.