A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

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.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I 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.

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

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

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

I don’t do meetings.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

When 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.

I’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.

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

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

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?

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

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 end of labor is to gain leisure.

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.

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

It 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?‘

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

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.

If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

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

I 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!‘

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

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.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

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.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

If you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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

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.

‚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.

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.

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.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

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

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

I 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.

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

The pay is good and I can walk to work.