Jodie Whittaker Quotes

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

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

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

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

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.

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

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

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.

Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think. It's a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work - it's on you to make it work, and no one else.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.

I love the fact that I don't have a real job!

We usually let our husbands negotiate the house and the cars. But I never had a husband, so I was always buying my own houses and cars, so I knew how to negotiate.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.