Quotes & Sayings About Self Employment

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions — Sunday Adelaja

The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living. — George Hackenschmidt

You need to discover the form in which God wants your life to be — Sunday Adelaja

You have to discover the essence of your life — Sunday Adelaja

You must add value to yourself to be relevant — Sunday Adelaja

Don't procrastinate, start building yourself now! — Sunday Adelaja

Dedicate time to discovering yourself and find out the purpose of your creation — Sunday Adelaja

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life — Sunday Adelaja

A selfish life isn't God's purpose for you — Sunday Adelaja

You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself — Sunday Adelaja

Self-employment killed the weekend. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best way to assess yourself is to base the assessment on the product you produce daily — Sunday Adelaja

Don't just make use of a gift, look inside you and maximize others — Sunday Adelaja

Devote time wisely to discover your true self — Sunday Adelaja

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes. — Edmund Phelps

Losing your job is an awesome opportunity to look inside yourself and make new discoveries — Sunday Adelaja

There is a multitude of forms of this appearing of un-freedom in the guise of its opposite: in being deprived of universal healthcare, we are told that we are being given a new freedom of choice (to choose our healthcare provider); when we can no longer rely on long-term employment and are compelled to search for a new precarious job every couple of years, we are told that we are being given the opportunity to reinvent ourselves and discover our creative potential; when we have to pay for the education of our children, we are told that we are now able to become "entrepreneurs of the self," acting like a capitalist freely choosing how to invest the resources he possesses (or has borrowed). In education, health, travel we are constantly bombarded by imposed "free choices"; forced to make decisions for which we are mostly not qualified (or do not possess enough information), we increasingly experience our freedom as a burden that causes unbearable anxiety. — Slavoj Zizek

To build yourself is to add value to your life — Sunday Adelaja

Purposefully spend time to better yourself — Sunday Adelaja

COMEDIAN: [ ... ] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to do. — J. Ross Clara

After losing you job, you have to sit, relax and discover yourself — Sunday Adelaja

If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal'. yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always justify, to the highest degree, the employment of all possible resources. — Adolf Hitler

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

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed's working hours. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment. — Jeremy Taylor

44. Abidement Bullshit money or basic freedoms: which is dearer? Contentment or competition: which is more valuable? Compensation or employment: which is more painful? Great coitus incurs great expense, And great wealth incurs fucking phoniness, But great abidement incurs no loss. Therefore: He who knows when to take it easy Can't be worried about that shit, And may long endure ups and downs, strikes and gutters. Tao Te Ching: 44. Contentment Fame or Self: which is dearer? Self or wealth: which is more valuable? Profit or loss: which is more painful? Great love incurs great expense, And great wealth incurs great theft, But great contentment incurs no loss. Therefore: He who knows when to stop Does not continue into danger, And may long endure. — The Church Of The Latter-Day Dude

The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable! — Leonard Read

Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship. — Robin Caldwell

To develope [sic] the powers of the Creator is our proper employment - and to imitate Creativeness by combination our most exalted and self-satisfying Delight. — Mark J.P. Wolf

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment. — Rex Curry

Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.). — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment. — Jesse Jackson

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. — Marshall McLuhan

Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

*I'm hustling* is a low self-esteem having man's way of saying *I'm unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman's question as to what he does for a living. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed — Sunday Adelaja

You must live a life of self-consciousness always — Sunday Adelaja

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

Always evaluate and determine the product of your life — Sunday Adelaja

To work for God effectively, you have to expand and stretch yourself — Sunday Adelaja

WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'T

We may feel the need to change employment, but we don't.

We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don't.

We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don't

We may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don't.

We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don't.

We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don't.

(This list could likely go on for eternity.)

The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.

Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we'll still go on living.

...But at what cost? — Richie Norton

You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on — Sunday Adelaja

Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment. — Jean Baker Miller

Dedicate time to yourself and do things that help you grow — Sunday Adelaja

Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself — Sunday Adelaja

Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days — Sunday Adelaja

Don't be too comfortable with employment; discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself — Sunday Adelaja

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again. — Gillian Flynn

Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers — Sunday Adelaja

Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research — Sunday Adelaja

The consumption of drugs has the effect of reducing men's freedom by circumscribing the range of their interests. It impairs their ability to pursue more important human aims, such as raising a family and fulfilling civic obligations. Very often it impairs their ability to pursue gainful employment and promotes parasitism. Moreover, far from being expanders of consciousness, most drugs severely limit it. One of the most striking characteristics of drug-takers is their intense and tedious self-absorption. — Theodore Dalrymple

When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself — Sunday Adelaja

In short, capitalism depends on ever-growing amounts of state intervention in the market for its survival, and the system is hitting the point where the teat runs dry.

The result is a system in which governments and corporations are increasingly hollowed out. And meanwhile, growing up within this corporate capitalist "integument," things like open source software and culture, open-source industrial design, permaculture and low-overhead garage micromanufacturing eat the corporate-state economy alive. An ever-growing share of labor and production are disappearing into relocalized resilient economies, self-employment, worker cooperatives and the informal and household economy. In the end, they will skeletonize the corporate dinosaurs like a swarm of piranha. — Kevin A. Carson

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders
orders which are in this case self-generated. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. — Jean De La Bruyere

The church doesn't exist to satisfy the religious tastes of its members. Nor does it exist for institutional self-preservation. Nor does it exist to provide clergy with fulfilling employment and generous remuneration and an unparalleled retirement package. But rather it exists to join God in God's self-giving for the sake of the world. — Kelly Bean

Evaluate and assess your life on a daily — Sunday Adelaja

The demand for good bookkeepers is at an all time high as more people make the leap into self-employment each year and need competent bookkeeping help. — Sylvia Jaumann

You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself — Sunday Adelaja

Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. — Chris Guillebeau

Life becomes a blessing when you discover your calling — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order. — Kofi Annan

The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling — Sunday Adelaja

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. — Douglas Rushkoff

Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public knowledge. It [ ... ] can have a lasting demoralising effect on the character and personality of the offender. The loss of liberty, tedium, regimentation [ ... ] which prison life entails, have a greater potentiality than a whipping for destroying the offender's self-esteem and the integrity of his character and for changing, for the worse, his way of life. — P.W. Thirion

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. — Kingsley Amis

Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go — Sunday Adelaja

Discover your calling and add value to it — Sunday Adelaja

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average return by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly. Psychologists have confirmed that most people genuinely believe they are superior to most others on most desirable traits - they are willing to bet small amounts of money on these beliefs in the laboratory. — Daniel Kahneman