Executive Burnout Quotes

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

If you don't have the necessary inner balance, leadership can demolish you. Today, if you are a CEO by the time you are 35, you must have ulcers. By 45, you must have diabetes. By 55, you must have had a bypass. People say they have had three bypasses, as if it is a qualification.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty