Clara Hughes Quotes

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

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.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

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

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

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

If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

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

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.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

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