Jim Courier Quotes

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

I need to work outside government, on my own.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

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

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

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

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 been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

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

In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

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.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

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'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.