Cody Rhodes Quotes

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.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

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.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

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.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and as a writer, you can just pick up your computer and start whenever you want. That is really freeing.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

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.

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