Jack Dangermond Quotes

Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

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 definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Nothing confers freedom like a buck in the bank.

I've supported myself since 'Tigerland.'

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom.

I pay for my own things, and that's how I've always been since I was 15.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission.