Don Cornelius Quotes

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

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

I have always worked on my own terms.

I'm always independent. No boss.

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I like to control my own personal life.

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

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

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

I just love to be able to be in control of my life.

Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'

Nobody is my boss.

I'm not a team player. I'm used to having total control over everything I do.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

I will always make my own path.

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

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.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.