Quotes About Self-reliance

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

I don't hate my relatives or those whose names fill my address book. But I do not want to have lunch with any of them. It is not personal. I am not angry. Nor is this about being afraid. I am not shy. I do not have terrible manners. Do birds hate lips? Do Fijians detest snowplows? Being a loner is not about hate, but need: We need what others dread. We dread what others need.

Ein Kennzeichen davon, daß man noch auf eigene Werke vertraut, ist, daß sich bei einem ?Fehltritt die Hoffnung vermindert.? Worte der Weisheit HIKAM ? von Ibn Ata'Allah al-Iskandari

You can do whatever you want if you don't care what people think

want to, you say it's not a good idea." She shook her head. Grown-

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

I have always maintained that my personal and professional life is completely apart.

People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

I write my programs primarily for myself.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.