John Cleese Quotes

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.

I'm going to quit when I feel like I'm not having fun anymore or I'm not competitive.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.

If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.

My kids, my health and my job are all equally important.

I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.

I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.

I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!