Al Michaels Quotes

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

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.

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

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

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

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!

I do fantasize about having my own shop one day.

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

For me, I've always been an entrepreneur.