David Rubenstein Quotes

I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

I generally sleep about four hours.

I sleep three or four hours every night, but I wouldn't change anything.

We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.

I stay up really late, even if I'm not working; I don't go to bed early.

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.

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

I don't need much sleep.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.'

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

Sunday I try to make up for some sleep I lost the week before and bank some for the next week.

I would prefer to get more sleep, quite frankly, because I think I would be more productive at everything.

I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute.

I get about seven hours of sleep a night.

I only sleep about four or five hours a night. I read all night long.