Alan Sugar Quotes

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

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

I need to work outside government, on my own.

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

I love the fact that I don't have a real job!

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.

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.'

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

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

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

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.

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

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

I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.

The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.

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 used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

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

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.