Christiane Amanpour Quotes

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

I'm essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It's my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.

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

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

It's important to put all I have into my career.

And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.

I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.

I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.

I would never put my career on hold for anybody.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

I don't have children, but my work life is as important to me as anything could be. I've dedicated a lot of time and energy and years to it. Some might say some of my childbearing years to it. In and of itself, my work is like a child to me. That is my reality.

I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly.

I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.