Michael Birch Quotes

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

When there is no work, I create my own.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

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

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I had difficulty working for other people.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.