Independent Contractor Quotes

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to make phone calls. That was my position for 10 years.

I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

Bedroom Kandi is all about being your own boss, because it's a real partnership. Consultants start off making 40 percent of everything that they sell.

Like other undocumented people in this country, I want a green card, and I want a driver's license, and I want a passport. What, to me, is the immigration bill? It's a green card, a driver's license, and a passport. That's what it's about to me, tangibly. That I could see my mom. That I could drive. Is there anything more American than driving? That I could get a green card and be able to - right now, I'm just like freelancing and working as an independent contractor. It's hilarious. I'm unhirable.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

I'm a man without a corporation.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

Any time you have to tell work where you're at and what you're doing, that's considered an employee, not a contractor.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.