Quotes About Self-employment

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

There is this difference where a man works for himself, or where, when working for an employer, he takes his wages in kind, his wages depend upon the result of his labor. Should that, from any misadventure, prove futile, he gets nothing. When he works for an employer, however, he gets his wages anyhow—they depend upon the performance of the labor, not upon the result of the labor.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck.

You can be your own boss

If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed

Employment will fail you someday

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.