Teddy Sears Quotes

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

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

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

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 want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

When there is no work, I create my own.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

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

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.

I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.