Irene Rosenfeld Quotes

For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.

The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

It's hard to balance work and family.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.

I don't like time off - I would prefer to act maybe 364 days a year.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

I can't stop working!

I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

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

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.