David Ogilvy Quotes

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

We work too hard to be miserable.

At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.

In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

We work super hard to not have to work

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.