I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
Billie EilishFor 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 WoolfPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas SowellI love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.
Richard BransonA man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt DisneyI’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 MuskWork is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain‚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 PartonThe man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘
Will RogersIf 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.
Robert KiyosakiHave fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.
Colin PowellI’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 ObamaI’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl LagerfeldLike every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous HuxleyA 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.
Barack ObamaI like to work.
Abby Lee MillerIn 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.
Angelina JolieI’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 love being busy.
Dolly PartonMy work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingI 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 NewtonIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
Elon MuskNo matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald ReaganBig pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillI like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.
Tom BradyI 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 VonnegutOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellSurround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin PowellI 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.
Gordon RamsayI like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.
John KennedyWhen 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 WinehouseFind a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleIf 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 ChomskyI 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.
Angelina JolieWhy should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.
Karl LagerfeldI 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 HitchensI don’t do meetings.
Karl LagerfeldThroughout 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 ObamaThe thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
Robert KiyosakiHe who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan ThomasActing is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Denzel WashingtonI 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.
Matthew McConaugheyIn 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.
Christopher HitchensIt is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.
Eleanor RooseveltThe glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
George H. W. BushWork is making a living out of being bored.
Karl LagerfeldIf 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.‘
Jordan PetersonStarting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
Richard BransonWhen 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.
Gordon RamsayThe challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen CoveyBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesIf 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 WillinkWe use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.
Brene BrownWork ends up dehumanizing people.
Pope FrancisI’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 RamsayPeople 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.
Stephen CurryWhy 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 have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen Hawking