Jon Oringer Quotes

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.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

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.

When there is no work, I create my own.

I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.

I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

Entrepreneurs are motivated by independence as well as challenge, knowing they are ultimately responsible for themselves. Monetary success is certainly helpful, but it often becomes more of a score card than anything else.

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

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

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.

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

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

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.

I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

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

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.

I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.

Part of being an entrepreneur is, like, it's just so great to run your own business, that feeling you get.

For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.