Matt Mullenweg Quotes

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?

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

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

I've been blessed to have a long career.

I've always worked.

The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.

As long as you have a job, I'm providing for my family, I'm blessed and you move forward.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

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'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.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

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.

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.

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.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

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.

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.