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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

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

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t do meetings.

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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

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.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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!‘

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

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.

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.

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

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

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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?‘

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

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.

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.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

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.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

If 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.

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

I’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.

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

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

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

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.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

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.

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

‚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.

I 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.

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

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