Quotes About Independence

great remote workers are simply great workers. They exhibit the two key qualities, as Joel Spolsky labeled them in his "Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing":fn1 Smart, and Gets Things Done.

if you can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager.

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡

If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves.

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

Release yourself from the 9am-to-5pm mentality. It might take a bit of time and practice to get the hang of working asynchronously with your team, but soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once

The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.

you can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager.

Nismo nemo?ni jer nam govore što da radimo i jer to ?inimo. Bespomo?ni smo jer volimo sigurnost ropstva.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

In my relatively short time on this planet, I'd learned that there were two types of people. Those who were doomed to follow in whatever footsteps had been laid out for them, and those who were strong enough to carve their own path.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

Can't a person lie on the floor simply because he wants to and because it suits him?

I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

hotel de una ciudad nunca vista, elegida sólo al azar del anochecer: fingir que uno está soltero y sin responsabilidades, y sin nadie a quien regresar.

Socialization depends on both autonomy and interdependency; emphasizing one at the expense of the other compromises the balance.

Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a bride, I'm not so gauche as that, but as a mistress or paramour or concubine or companion or friend or pal or anything else. I just don't want to be left alone! I want to get out of here! She said it again for all the wide-faced flowers to hear: I want to get out of here!

Los eventos no poseen, al igual que el yo y los objetos, una existencia independiente y autónoma sino que son producto de una ideación.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Only you can control your future.

Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves.