Elon Musk Quotes

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I've never once resented the fact that I couldn't go out because of my kids.

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.

When I go home, I got a kid; I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about the character or anything that may or may not happen.

It was very clear to me early on that balancing work and family was going to be very important.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home.