Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.

I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

I love the fact that I don't have a real job!

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.