Tom Rath Quotes

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.

Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.

People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it.

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 don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

The truth is, if we abuse ourselves with too much work and too little play, our body is eventually going to fight back, and the results can be terrible.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.