Ruth Porat Quotes

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

I don't have a real life. I just work all the time.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

You can't work all your life.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.

I am not one of those people who want to work 24/7.

Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

It's hard separating work from personal life.