Henry Blodget Quotes

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I enjoy not being a public company.

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.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

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.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

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

I'm my own boss, you know?

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

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 don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Don't live your life to please other people.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

The greatest thing about being a mother so young, I had my first child at 24, is that I cook, I clean, I love to be independent and kind of hate to be waited on and hate to be taken care of. So, I guess that demonstrates my fiercely independent nature which is kind of anti what I portray on a weekly basis.

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.