Padgett Powell Quotes

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.

I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that.

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'

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 want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

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

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

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

I had difficulty working for other people.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

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.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

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

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

I just didn't want a boss. The minute you're a CEO, you have a pile of bosses, and you're working 7/24, and you're on everyone's radar all the time.

I think I probably had to start a company, because I don't think I can work for other people.

I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.

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.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.