Kathryn Minshew Quotes

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you're often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day.

I don't give my employees hours - some of them come in at 7 A.M., some at 10 A.M., some stay until 6 P.M. or midnight. They have that freedom to come and go as they wish, although they all put in more hours than your 9 to 5.

I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home... I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

I work 110-hour weeks.

The best part about my job is that I'm pampered and always treated like a Barbie doll on the sets. But the worst part is that I have to work daily without many breaks.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

I have a crazy work schedule.

The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.