Jay DeMarcus Quotes

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.

… a job of infinite stress

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

I work 110-hour weeks.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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

You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse.

The animal industry has sucked the life out of me for the past 20 years. I need a break.

Unfortunately, the manager is always the one who gets under pressure the most.

The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.

I basically work all the time.