Bob Greene Quotes

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

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

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

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

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 willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

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.

The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it's exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it's a lot of work.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

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

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.