Miguel McKelvey Quotes

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

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.'

For my career, I wouldn't go racing if I didn't enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

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.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

Any woman that is willing to take control of their life and do what they want to do to make their living, I have a lot of respect for.

I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.