David Einhorn Quotes

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

People who work in the White House work 90 to 100 hours a week…. It’s an interesting complement to family values.

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

To have the opportunity to be creative and clarify the nature of that creativity, there are definitely some long days, some 18-20 hour days with interviews or computer work, but I have a friend who is every bit as intelligent and creative as me who works at the mill.

Peapod is a great company to work with.