Adam Schlesinger Quotes

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

I work long hours. I work very, very hard.

I worked every night, and I'd go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.

I am constantly working.

I know I need a work ethic to match my talent.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.