Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

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.

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

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

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.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

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.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

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

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

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

I'm my own boss, you know?