Rudyard Kipling Quotes

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

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

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

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

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?

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

If the only way you can do well is working more hours than someone else, you're going to lose out because there's always going to be someone who is going to work more.

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

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.

I can't stop working!

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

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

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

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

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer, and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

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