Self Employment Quotes

If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.

Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Self-employment killed the weekend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.

Jessica Livingston

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana