Quotes about Self-Funded

Franz Liszt

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Jack Ma

I never got one cent from the government or from China so I am very independent.

Alibaba—the largest e-commerce company in the world, larger than Amazon.com and eBay put together--had hundreds of millions of on-line Chinese buyers and hundreds of thousands of Chinese retailers. A huge proportion of Chinese retail sales go through Alibaba which facilitates a very large part of the Chinese economy.

Melvin Van Peebles

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

Kelly Brook

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

Tech N9ne

I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.

Tamara Mellon

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

In 2011, I released my first album called 'International Villager.' I had no support, and whatever money I had made, I put it all in the album. I shot the music video for 'Brown Rang' with one lakh dollars. I spent so much money, as I just wanted to put it up on YouTube, as I knew that my market was there, and it became a huge hit.

Walshy Fire

We like to be the people who go - can go out into the world and say we're the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.

Dillian Whyte

People say they start from the bottom. If you want to see someone who's started from the bottom, go and look at my career. My first 10 fights, I think I paid for them myself. I've fought three times in one month.

Marat Safin

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Tink

You don't need to depend on a label, because you're making that money on your own.

Francis Ford Coppola

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

Andrew Cherng

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

Alan Schaaf

I'm probably most proud of the fact that we are bootstrapped and that we are able to do not just the typical Silicon Valley startup thing. We are basically throwing away all the typical conventions of other startups.