John Barry Quotes

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

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

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'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

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

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

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

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

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.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

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

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.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

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

My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you want to execute things to your satisfaction, then you want to have as much control as you can. That leads to helping create work for others, not just yourself.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

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

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.

I am truly independently owned and operated.