John Cleese Quotes

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.

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.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.