Amy Bloom Quotes

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.'

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

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 a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

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

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

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 had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

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

When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

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

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

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.

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

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

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.

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.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

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

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.