Nick Woodman Quotes

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

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

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.

I never got one cent from the government or from China so I am very independent.

To protect our independence, we'll never run ads.

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.

I've supported myself since 'Tigerland.'