Eriq La Salle Quotes

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

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.

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.

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 live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

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.

I work hard and support myself.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

I never borrowed money from Mom. I lived at home, but my parents never helped me. I worked hard and moved out. I treated my blog like a business; hard work is important.

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 just want to be able to do it all just because that's what life is.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

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.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

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.

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.