Gig Economy Quotes

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

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.

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

The videos I put on YouTube have expanded my audience beyond what I could have done at just a Hamburger Mary's. People saw the videos, started booking me, and literally 40-plus countries and thousands of gigs later I can basically say that YouTube has bought me a house.

Even with uncertainty around the future of work in an increasingly automated world, Airbnb will remain a way for women to achieve greater financial independence and social empowerment in the years ahead.

A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord.

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.