Tony Fadell Quotes

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

I have always been a workaholic.

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

I'm not a workaholic!

Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.

I'm a workaholic, and I know it. And I don't care to deal with it.

Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.