Henry Samueli Quotes

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I want to improve every season, every training session. I'll continue that until I finish my career.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

It's always good to be working.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

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.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Working is working. I love to work.

I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.