Chuck Fleischmann Quotes

In America, small business is a big deal.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

See yourself as self employed.

I'm a man without a corporation.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

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

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

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.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.