I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I’m very good at it.
Conor McGregorI’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
Elon MuskThroughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.
Michelle ObamaIf you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
Joel OsteenIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Noam ChomskyIt seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘
Steven WrightA career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn MonroeStarting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
Richard BransonI’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
Michelle ObamaIt’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
Elon MuskMost employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.
Robert KiyosakiI love being busy.
Dolly PartonI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordThere has to be something in every role that interests you.
Clint EastwoodWhy do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
Florence NightingaleI’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Jim CarreyI’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl LagerfeldWork is making a living out of being bored.
Karl LagerfeldI’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Gordon RamsayWe use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.
Brene BrownStart a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Robert KiyosakiI’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.
Angelina JolieI do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
Isaac NewtonOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellThe glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
George H. W. BushI get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.
Kurt VonnegutI like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.
Tom BradyFor what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia WoolfIf you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.
Jocko WillinkIf my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.
Woody AllenPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas SowellWhen you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.
Abby Lee MillerWhen you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
Amy WinehouseThe one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Neil ArmstrongI don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.
Tom BradyMostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.
Amelia EarhartIf you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn MonroeFind a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin PowellA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard ShawMy work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingI know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. RockefellerI don’t do meetings.
Karl LagerfeldHardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
PlatoWhen I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘
Jackie ChanI don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.
Kevin GatesIf you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
Jocko WillinkI’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
Billie EilishThe bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Stephen CoveyI like to work.
Abby Lee Miller‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.
Dolly PartonI want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
Angelina JolieModeration is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
Jimmy BuffettI could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘
Christopher HitchensBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesWhen I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.
Paul AusterEvery once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘
Dwayne JohnsonI’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
Angelina JolieI love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.
Beyonce KnowlesYou reach a point where you don’t work for money.
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