Robert Duvall Quotes

See yourself as self employed.

I'm a man without a corporation.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

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

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

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.

I've always loved small business.

In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier proposition.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

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

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

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'm my own boss, you know?

I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.

I'm an entrepreneur.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.