Quotes About Self-reliance

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

My father doesn't like to promote me every time, and he wants me to build my own image.

I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.

For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

You go real long in this business, and then you have these light-bulb moments. I just had this fleeting moment of fearlessness and a moment of trust in myself that I'm not going to listen to anyone. I'm going to do it how I want to do it. And how I want to do is what people are going to want to see and promoters want to pay for.

I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially. I don't need that money. I have a career.

I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

We have to learn to live with fewer imports and more exports, promoting national production.

I never hired a PR agency in my life, nor do I believe in promoting and marketing my films.

I can excel in any situation, and like I've said, I'm not pro-WWE or anti-ECW - I'm pro-Edge. I don't care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

I'm living proof that you can create your own life.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.

If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.

It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself.

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.