Lyoto Machida Quotes

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

You don't bring your wife to work.

Business is business and family is family.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

It's hard to mix work and love.

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.

My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.

I don't party with my colleagues after work.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

I believe that your personal life does not have anything to do with your professional life.

Work is important, no doubt, but one can end up neglecting family and friends in the bargain. So I have resolved not to let that happen and maintain work-life balance by taking time out for the people who matter the most to me.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.