Self Employment Quotes

“Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.”
― 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

“Self-employment killed the weekend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

“Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.”
― 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, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

“Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people have the courage to bungee jump or even skydive, yet they lack the courage to work for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you love seeing money in your pocket, you hate your current job so you want out or you are uncomfortable with long working hours then entrepreneurship might be a tough journey for you.”
― DON SANTO

“Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

“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

“It takes courage not to laugh at your boss’s joke, especially if it is funny.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being a bad employer is more of an achievement than being a great employee.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I thought there was an abundance of information on how to structure a business, but there was a shortage of concrete information on what it really takes to sustain a business. The more I would hear from the experts on how to start a business, the less it rang true for me and my personal experience of running a small enterprise.”
― Paul E. Casey, Is Self-Employment For You? 10 Years Later

“Imagine the economic and social impact if the talents of people age 50-plus were unleashed via entrepreneurship. I'm just trying to do my bit to help that happen with "Workarounds.”
― Douglas Freeman, Workarounds: 50+ insider tactics for age 50+ entrepreneurs

“Some self-employed people work for others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most people who work for themselves have achieved work-life imbalance.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I got into business to help others achieve “self-reliance through self-employment” (the slogan of my first real company - an international mentor venture capital enterprise). ⁣”
― Richie Norton

“The slave cannot be made to defecate for the master.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Those who regularly use a TV are the most likely to occasionally use a CV.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most people have the tendency to delay helping or supporting someone, until their help or support is no longer needed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people get a lot of pleasure from sharing their success with those who were adamant that they would not or would never succeed, but get very little or even no pleasure from sharing their success with those who have supported them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent.
Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it's about two percent”
― Sheldon Pacotti, Chris Todd , and Austin Grossman

“Education leads to self empowerment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“We generally strive to give children a good upbringing with the hope that they will eventually become good employees.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Working for yourself does not make working too hard any less foolish.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana