Charles Bukowski Quotes

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

But when it comes to my career, my job, something that I love so much and something that I'm passionate about, I can't let anything get in the way of that.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

As frustrating as it gets, at times, and as frustrating as it is, at times, I don't think I've ever considered doing something else, or not wanted to do it anymore. To me, it's just the greatest job. It's a good fit for who I am and what I want to be.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.

The most important thing in my life is my work.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

I worked for 10 years before 'Mad Men,' and what was great is that when people saw my work, I was just loving working, so it wasn't about anything else than that.

It's not easy, but I'm really enjoying what I am doing. One day I am in Chennai, the other in Mumbai, then in Coimbatore. But I love my job, and I am really passionate about my work.

If loving your job qualifies you as a workaholic, then yes, I am one for sure!