Independent Business Quotes

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

A lot of times when people are released or, unfortunately, get fired, they almost scramble for what it is they are going to do next. I think when you are no longer working under a big, corporate umbrella, you have to be your own brand, your own enterprise. That was my thought process before I left.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Bedroom Kandi is all about being your own boss, because it's a real partnership. Consultants start off making 40 percent of everything that they sell.

Every McDonald's commercial ends the same way: Prices and participation may vary. I wanna open a McDonald's and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald's owner. "Cheeseburgers?" "Nope! We got spaghetti, and blankets."

Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.

My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced when I was about 9. In 1978, my dad moved to Nashville and opened an independent record promotion company, Mike Borchetta Promotions.

Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

Never sell, never franchise.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their operations.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

One of the biggest struggles in starting out on my own was developing a celebrity client base.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.