RuPaul Quotes

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.'

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

In 59 years I haven’t had to reinvent myself once.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

I'm very happy at CNBC. It's the passion, it's the movement - there's a lot of moving parts. And spontaneous TV and spontaneous debates... I don't know that there's anyone that enjoys their job more than I do.

I've got a new pair of trainers. That's the only difference in my life since I started working for Amazon.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.