Jack Ma Quotes

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

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

I am a workaholic and can do four things at a time.

I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.

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

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

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

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 was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

I'm constantly busy.

I'm working myself to death.

I'm such a workaholic.

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?

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

When you're working so much, it's so hard. When you do have time off, or when I had time off, rather than going out and seeing loads of people and being really sociable, I was always quite a homebody.

Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.

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

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.