Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

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

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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.

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.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

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.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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 pay is good and I can walk to work.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

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.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

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.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

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 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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I’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.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

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

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.