Quotes About Self-reliance

Jobs are for lazy people who don't want to invest in themselves.

I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.