30 I Am My Own Boss Quotes That Will Inspire You To Be Your Own Boss

Last Updated on December 16, 2022

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Being your own boss can be a rewarding and empowering experience. It allows you to set your own schedule, make your own decisions, and build a career or business that aligns with your passions and values.

Though it has challenges, many people choose to take the leap and become their own boss, driven by the desire for independence and the opportunity to create their own path in life.

In this article, we will explore some of the inspiring and motivating quotes about being your own boss that will provide you with the encouragement and motivation you need to succeed on your own terms.

I Am My Own Boss Quotes

1. “If you don’t build your own dreams someone will hire you to build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins

2. “Life is a flash of lighting in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.” – B. Alan Wallace

3. “Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” – Michael LeBoeuf

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4. . “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” – Tim Ferriss

5. “People capable of making enough money to never work again are the same people who will never quit working.” – Chris Dixon

6. “Be your own boss and chase your dreams. Take control and enjoy the flexibility of working on your terms.” – Unknown

7. “Your skills and passion mingle when you be your own boss.” – Unknown

8. “What it means to be your own boss is that you can do more with a lot less fuss and bother and less time wasting your precious minutes following instructions you don’t trust.” – Unknown

9. “To be your own boss makes you the master of your own life. You decide how much time should go into which part of the goal to be achieved. And it’s on you to see that you get where you need to be.” – Unknown

10. “I work for myself and myself alone. It comes with a feeling of pride, a feeling of power, a feeling of glory and honour. I do not have to get approval from anyone or anything to do everything. I can do what I want. You should be your own boss.” – Unknown

11. “You can be your own boss.” ― Sunday Adelaja

12. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily” – Anonymous

13. “No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals”
– Brian tracy

14. “Sitting in your office and just thinking that you would love to be your own boss won’t make you an entrepreneur. You need to take that first step.” – Anonymous

15. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos

16. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell

17. “There is a boss in you. Do you know you can be the boss of your business? All it takes is a bit of imagination and some hard work.” – Anonymous

18. “You can be who you want to be and do what you want to do when you’re your own boss. You won’t have to follow orders. You can create your own path and go through your career on your terms.” – Anonymous

19. “I’m my own boss–the guy that writes my own rules. I don’t have to run everything by someone else. I can make the choices I want to, I can eat when I want to, and I can sleep when I want.” – Unknown

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20. “Come work for yourself. Make the most money you’ve ever made. It’s still early enough to be the boss of yourself.” – Unknown

21. “When you become your own boss, you control your future. You get to choose where you work, what you do, and how hard you work.” – Anonymous

22. “I don’t follow others, I am my own boss.” – Anonymous

23. “I don’t follow other people as I follow my own rules. Why? Because am my own boss.” Anonymous

24. “You don’t have to like me, but you will respect me because I am my own boss.” – Unknown

25. “In life you have 2 choices: Either be your own boss, or work for one.” – Unknown

26. “Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.”
– Bent Larsen

27. “I don’t need a critic to tell me I’m an actor. I make my own way. Nobody’s my boss. Nobody’s ever been my boss.” – Krik

28. “If you’re not going to manage yourself, somebody else is going to manage you.” – Anonymous

29. “The energy you’ll expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.” – Sophia Amoruso

30. “It’s better than 9 to 5 because I’m my own boss so I can take off when I want to, and the dress code is non-existent and the commute is terrific.” – Unknown