Paulo Coelho Quotes

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

Work is no longer challenging.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.'

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

You can't work all your life.

I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

I've spoken to people who have retired once they lost the enjoyment of a long day in the field or going to the gym. If I lose that, it's time to go.

Working every day isn't hard if you love what you're doing.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.