Wayne Huizenga Quotes

Working at home is always best. Traveling is the hardest part of my job - I say I don't get paid to wrestle, because that's the fun part. I get paid to travel.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.

My first boss at the BBC was Aubrey Singer. The main thing I learned from him was discipline. I also learned things about myself: namely, that I hated commuting and didn't really want a 9-5 job.

When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.

I'm on the road two or three days a week normally.

When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.