Rick Ross quotes:

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

Two, let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let's all have a beautiful year, let's get this money.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil...

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.

I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.

Every boss started as a worker.

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.

Nah, that's not true.

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla.

Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.

I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."

I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.

I'm single, I'm enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and a girl came up to me and said, "Man, the only people they talk about around here are Michael Jackson and you." It was pretty flattering to be considered in the same light as the king of pop in my area.

Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front.

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

These haters can't hold me back

Through "deprogramming" or cult intervention the only issues that are addressed focus upon the specific group and group involvement. The subject of such an intervention subsequently may leave the group and go on with their life reassuming their own basic individual values and beliefs.

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what you want to do, just like any mayor. You can park your car anywhere. You get the best women. You go to the restaurants and eat free. It was like being a rock star. Like being Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. It was just pure freedom, everything I was looking for. I desperately wanted freedom.

Woman is the most precious gift known to man,

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.