Syd Quotes

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I started hustling in early adolescence.

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.'

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

From the age of 11, I was taught the importance of earning my own money. I would babysit, walk dogs, clean cars, and work at the local corner shop and the butcher's. If I wanted to buy something, I always bought it myself.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

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