Jeff Bezos Quotes

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

I am a workaholic, have always been.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I'm kind of a workaholic.

I remember telling my dad, 'I'm working 14- to 16-hour days and I don't care. I can't wait to get back to work.'

Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

I work long hours. I work very, very hard.

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.