Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

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.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.