Quotes About Self-reliance

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.

Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself.

I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

I've never been the smartest or most qualified for any job I've ever had, and I'm talking waitressing, babysitting, you name it. But I know I've got the will to win. And I learned how to bet on myself and take a shot.

I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Without appearing smug in any way, I would say I did not have a role model. I wish I had but I did not.

I used to mow grass and sell Christmas cards and shovel snow in order to raise the $25 to go to Boy Scout Camp in Osceola every year.

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.