Christoffel Wiese Quotes

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.

You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.