L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

Never sell, never franchise.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

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.

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

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

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

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

Thousands of capitalist have been enriched by inventions and discoveries of which they were not the authors, and capital, by robbing the inventor of his just reward, is guilty of stifling genius.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

My husband and I are small business owners.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

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'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

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

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.