Mike Wilson Quotes

I've always loved small business.

I'm an entrepreneur.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

In America, small business is a big deal.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

I do fantasize about having my own shop one day.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

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.'

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

My husband and I are small business owners.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

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

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

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.