Quotes About Self-employment

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

The only person who would employ me without a degree was myself.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage

Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more "work" than joy. When I work for myself there is the pure joy of creating and I can work through the night and not even know it. On a commissioned piece you have to check yourself—be careful to do what the client wants.

Dr. Barbara Reinhold, author of Free to Succeed: Designing Your Life in the New Free Agent Economy,

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

what drove me on to be my own boss was that the thing that I wanted most was to be able to have a nap every day

Instead of feeling oppressed by the necessity to work hard, they share the opinion of Giuliana B., a seventy-four-year-old lady: "I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don't do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don't have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom." Certainly

Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money.