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Jay-Z has kind of shown that you can get to the very top without waiting, without following rules. In fact, it's better if you don't. People will admire you more if you break the rules.

— George Packer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

— Magnus Carlsen

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

— Jason Mraz

People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

— J. Cole

You're not always going to come out on top.

— Carson Wentz

I do want to go out on top, as a winner.

— Art Modell

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravagance. But for all his prominence, Jay-Z hasn't written a lot of crossover hits.

— Michael Paterniti

I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

— Gabriel Iglesias

If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

— Johnathan Joseph

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

— Gary Lineker

✗Opposing Perspectives

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

— Rita Ora