Guy Standing Quotes

There will be time enough some day to work less.

I would recommend that every woman who intends to take on a maid should do every bit of her own work first. When she knows exactly the time it takes, the hard work, the weariness it entails, then she can begin with intelligence to plan what her maid can do.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

You're on set for 15 hours, and then you go home and make sure you're posting the right stuff on social media, and then you answer your e-mails. It never stops.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.

My productivity is overwhelming!

I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years!

I have seen both extremes; when there was no work, I was frustrated and now that I'm overworked, I feel the same. I'm looking for a balance now.

I think being somewhat of a workaholic - and it's not healthy by any stretch - but I think you place your self-worth on your career, and as far as I was concerned, my career was crap.

I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

I've done what I've always wanted to do. But as one Senator said, just because you're doing what you've always wanted to do, it doesn't mean you have to do it forever. And it's very taxing in terms of the travel, the running around.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

All I do is work, that's all my life is work.