Brad Rutter Quotes

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

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

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

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.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which I work.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

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.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.