The Self Employed – work for themselves but trade time for money.

The Business Owner – owns a business that does not need the owner present to function.

The goal?

Owning 50,000 shares of ExxonMobile.

And not worrying about either one.

There’s a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner. Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles. To be a true business owner, make it so that you could leave for a year, and when you came back, your business would be doing better than when you left.

–Derek Sivers, Anything You Want