Evan Williams Quotes

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

I'm my own boss, you know?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.

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

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

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

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

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.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

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.

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

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.