Georgette Mosbacher Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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

I am truly independently owned and operated.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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