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I’m a big fan of Esquire magazine. As a longtime mag editor/writer, I always admired how they perfectly served their readership (evolved predominantly white guys who like to oogle “handsome” women in sheer undershirts, but also want to learn about faraway lives and the right way to treat a stain, lol) and paid great writers enough to get quality investigative journalism (which serves a larger audience, like me). In fact, whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I tell them, to write better, read better writing. Don’t focus on just reading more about the culture that you’re already in….stretch. Try the New Yorker and Esquire. The wider your lens, the better you can put your subject in perspective. But back to Esquire….I know we may be a bit 50-ed out, but yesterday’s Howard Stern interview was mandatory, and this was interesting…

50 is featured in Esquire’s What I’ve Learned column….and while the magazine may think that the “get” in this column is Fif talking (again) about how Hov is safe and Hov got run-up on at the VMAs. That’s zzzz for us. Below are the better gems (in my opinion):

It’s Fifty, not Fiddy. [other mainstream media/ppl, please take note. I blame Diddy.]

There’s people who are considered intelligent who are idiots.

People who raise their hands deserve to be ahead of people who don’t.

There are too many entrepreneurs. We need the worker to make the process function properly.

When I got shot, it was a $5,000 exchange. The price of a life is cheap.

Obama takes away the excuses.

The best businessmen in the world make a bad deal sometimes. And it’s not usually in a boardroom. Most of them marry the wrong woman. That business deal is the worst business deal of all.

more after the jump

My son is more important to me than I am to him.

Always have bail money.

Am I an honest man? I’m a selectively honest man.

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it’s exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

Is Charles Manson a serial killer? No, he isn’t, because he ain’t do no killing. He’s a coward. He was just crazy enough to influence people to kill for him. There were a lot of Charles Mansons in my neighborhood. There were no Napoleons.