Martin Yan Quotes

Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.

I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.

It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.

I'm happy with my career.

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

My work gave me everything and allowed me to live out my passion.

I'm just lucky to be working; I'm not trying to leave a legacy.

I believe your career is one of the few things that stay with you forever. It also gives you the confidence to lead a happy life.

Money is a bonus of the job, but it doesn't always make you happy.

I am happy with my career.

I am happy and content with my work and career.

Football has set me up to provide for my family, it has allowed me a better opportunity to do things in my life that track may have not.