Warren Farrell Quotes

A teacher works a lot harder than I do and her work is far more important, but she will never make the money that I do.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

You know, here in America we only work half a day—12 hours.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

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

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.

Eight hours daily labor is enough for any human being

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

I have a crazy work schedule.

Even if I am working 12 hours a day, I want to be working, not sitting in my room for eight hours waiting for my shot.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

Even when I was working at The Village Voice, I only put in about 20 hours at the office.

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.