Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

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.

I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

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

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

You try not ever to be in the position to compromise by coercion on your sovereignty.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

We can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority

Was, then, the American Revolution effected, was the American Confederacy formed, was the precious blood of thousands spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the people of America should enjoy peace, liberty, and safety, but that the government of the individual States, that particular municipal establishments, might enjoy a certain extent of power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of sovereignty?

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.