James Lipton Quotes

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

I have gone long stretches of working 60 to 80 hours per week.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

I basically work all the time.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

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

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.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I have a crazy work schedule.

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

I usually work, like, 27 days in a row and then take one off.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

It is true I work 16 hours a day.

I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.

Vince McMahon is a workaholic; he sleeps 4 hours a night. The last thing that you want to tell the old man is that you are burned out - you need a break.