Heidi Roizen Quotes

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

I had difficulty working for other people.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

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

I am as independent as I want to be, same as Catherine and Harry. We've all grown up differently to other generations and I very much feel if that I can do it myself, I want to do it myself.

In earnest, my dear brother, I am sorry for you from the bottom of my soul. Take my advice, and turn Huron; for I see plainly a vast difference between your condition and mine. I am master of my own body, I have the absolute disposal of myself, I do what I please.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

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.'

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

Nobody is my boss.

Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.