Jay DeMarcus Quotes

As an entrepreneur, it's easy to feel ownership over every aspect of your business because you're putting your reputation, your money, and other people's money on the line. Oh, and you're sleeping, breathing, and eating your passion project - that, too. But if you try to do it all yourself, you're almost certain to fail.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

I was a salary man for so many years. I never had to worry about the ins and outs of business or entrepreneurship or funding. I just had to show up and do my job. And then, all of a sudden, I was having to be responsible for my own business.

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

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

When you're your own business, and my business is called Nita Strauss Incorporated, and I am my business, so it's not like I get to stop working at 5 p.m. and go home and do other things. It's a full-time job.

I like to be the captain of my ship and be involved with everything from stage production, merch, art, and rollouts.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

I have built my own factory on my own ground, 38 by 208 feet. I employ in that factory seven people, including a bookkeeper, a stenographer, a cook and a housegirl.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills.

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've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.