Richard Lamm Quotes

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

Any President who performs his duties diligently has no time for leisure.

I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.

I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

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

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

Fire people who are not workaholics.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.