Bruce Oldfield Quotes

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

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

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

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.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

I don't think I've worked a day in my life.

I definitely work a lot, but I love it.

Obviously, this is a job, it's a grind, but it's what you love to do. It's your passion.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

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.

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.

I love every minute of my work.

I don't think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you're really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.