Steve Blank Quotes

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I don't like time off - I would prefer to act maybe 364 days a year.

I work long hours. I work very, very hard.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I'm an extreme workaholic.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

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

My friends ask me why I don't chill out and take things easy. I tell them that when I used to work 326 days a year, I never had time to do anything.

I've been told I'm a workaholic.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

Work first, and then rest.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

We work super hard to not have to work

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.