Robert Caro Quotes

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

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

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

Work hard, play hard.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.