Kathryn Minshew Quotes

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

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

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

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

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

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 work too hard and don't play enough.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

I don't have a real life. I just work all the time.

There's 24 hours in a day, and I'm working most of them.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

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'm constantly working, even when I'm at home.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

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 probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.