Susan Rice Quotes

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.

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 had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

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

See yourself as self employed.

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

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.

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

I'm my own boss, you know?

In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier proposition.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

I'm a man without a corporation.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

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

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

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

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

I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.