Brittany Howard Quotes

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

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

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.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

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

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

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

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

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

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

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

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

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.

I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.

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.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

I own my own time.

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.