Kelly Cutrone Quotes

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

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

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

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.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

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

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.

I think I probably had to start a company, because I don't think I can work for other people.

A lot of the reason I wanted to become an entrepreneur and avoid working for others is that you get to create the world you want to live in and the company you want to work for, and I've loved that. It's a part of entrepreneurship that women should really embrace.

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

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.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

Part of being an entrepreneur is, like, it's just so great to run your own business, that feeling you get.

The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it's exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it's a lot of work.

See yourself as self employed.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.