The Real Business

R. Kayosaki (RDPD) once said, if you work for your business, then it's not a business, it's a job.
Business generally, is a way of making profit by sale or service directly or indirectly. R. Kayosaki's point is indirectly, you don't do the job yet the money goes to your pocket, yeah... cool, chill sa aking duyan.
If you are an employee quitting your day job in favor of being a freelancer/contractor, because your consulting gig is better than your day job. Do not forget to consider that being a consultant working one client at a time is not far from being an employee.
But, why is it? Doctors, Architects, Attorneys, Accountants, etc. doing freelancing, make a better living. Answer it yourself, they are promising in nature. Owning the Hospital, Owning an Architect firm, Owning a software company. Owning makes the big difference, and that's what real business is. But hey, I want to own a business selling pirated CD. That is definitely a monkey business and it's a different story. Try police story.