Richard Kinder Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

See yourself as self employed.

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

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

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

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.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

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

I'm my own boss, you know?

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.

In everything, we wanted to own the relationships, the business, our own companies ourselves.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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

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.

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.