Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

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

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

I had difficulty working for other people.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

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

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

I'm not a team player. I'm used to having total control over everything I do.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

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

I enjoy making the decisions.

I'm always independent. No boss.

I like to control my own personal life.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

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.

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

In everything, we wanted to own the relationships, the business, our own companies ourselves.

I have always worked on my own terms.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.