You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I 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.

Why 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.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

For 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?

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

If 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.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

If 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.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

The 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.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Every 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.‘

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

I 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.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Throughout 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.

Most 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.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.