Dan Gelber Quotes

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

Never sell, never franchise.

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

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

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

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.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

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

I just didn't want a boss. The minute you're a CEO, you have a pile of bosses, and you're working 7/24, and you're on everyone's radar all the time.

I'm my own boss, you know?

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.

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.

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.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

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.

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 own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

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.

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