Mike Wallace Quotes

All my life from a young man I have worked very hard and I enjoyed it very much and I was really afraid with what I would do when I no longer had the responsibility.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I need to work to feel well.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I would have done something else in life. Something more calming, in a different area where I did not have to use my emotions.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.

Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

When you get older you do one film at a time.

I'm going to quit when I feel like I'm not having fun anymore or I'm not competitive.

I am a very positive person, but you don't get taught how to deal with the end of your career. Never.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.