Will Estes Quotes

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

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.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.

I only can talk about myself and my experience. Honestly, working on your own terms is difficult for a newcomer but not impossible. I am an example of that.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

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.

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

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

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

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

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

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

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

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

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.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.