Work Life Balance

“If you want to be balanced, then you're going to get balanced results. Like, that's just the truth, and I think that work-life balance is kind of a scam. I think the balance actually happens between the waves of life”

“Like, we wanted to do what most people wouldn't, So we could get a result that most people don't get because like everyone wants work life balance. We all want to be happy all the time, but like, that's why so few companies probably succeed.”

“There's nothing called balance. What balance? You know, anytime you use the word balance, I think of this beam sitting on a fulcrum that's perfectly still. It doesn't exist. It's juggling all those roles. It's not even harmony. Sometimes it's not very harmonio…”

“You can't be a founder of what will be a great technology franchise and do it part time and have a great, you know, great work life balances often gets bantied about. It's impossible.”

“I believe working unreasonably hard yields better outcomes. Work life balance is a complete myth.”

“Work-life balance is complete nonsense because it suggests that work is not part of your life. There's a separation between your work and your life. Your work should be part of your life. That should be work-life integration.”

“Then when you think about bringing on a team, controversially, some of the things that I said to people in the interview process was that if you're looking for a job, this is the wrong place. If you're looking for work-life balance, this is the wrong place. Th…”

“I've never had, for example, a work-life balance, but that's been by choice for various reasons, right or wrong. It's not happening by default.”

“Work-life balance, at least in a startup, is a myth, and anyone that tells you that is just lying to you or hasn't achieved anything, and I like to think of it as work-life seasons or, and harmony”

“I think it's bullshit.”

“I hate the concept of it in entrepreneurship, you know, like for an, like a salaried worker, like sure, like balance should be, you know, something that you're thinking about, but in particular in sport or high performance careers or something that you're doin…”

“You cannot be, like, checking out on, like, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and, like, work at, like, nine to five if you want to, like, Make progress, or like, some people are just so good at detaching, like, ok, like, you know, like, eight pm, I'm not going to, my…”

“I agree over a short to medium time period. I think, I don't know how founders do it over a 10 or 20 year time period, because I cannot work for that intensity for that long.”

“Now there has become this like this combative divide where like people who work hard, think less of, you know, lazy snowflakes that don't want to work hard and people that have a healthy work life balance, look at people who are ambitious and are working and t…”

“Rather than, like, work-life balance, where it's like, there's the things I like to do, and then there's work, and then they're separate. They're always trading off time against each other. No, no, no. Integrate them. And so, take something I love to do, which…”

“Work-life balance is a nine-to-five mindset, and I don't say that in a bad way, I just say it's a context way.”

“The days of work life balance are over.”

“Not too much. I think I like to do things 100%. But I do have like the kids and I see them, but there is some balance to find in that.”

“Work-life balance, I think is not the right model. Like, I think you want a life that you're proud of. I think you want work that you're proud of that weaves into your dinner conversations with your family”

“Work-life balance is not true in the standard sense of, you know, you work, you finish your home, so you work, you finish your work, you go home, and then you chill. That's not work-life balance, right? If you're, you know, lucky enough to be doing something t…”

“I don't like balance, work-life balance. This is a stupid thing for everyone. You have to be immersed.”

“I have been a fan of this notion that if you have to be truly, truly big, and if you have to create something that impacts, creates a huge impact, I hate balance. I mean, I believe that you do enough so that it's utility. You figure out a way to balance family…”

“Say for a two, three, five year period, it may not be consecutive here and there. If you feel something about a certain way, if you feel like you're creating something, you're having an exciting time, whether it be professionally, personally, anything, then go…”

“And I think there's been just a great fallacy that's gone on. That you can have live work balance or life work balance, and you could have this nirvana where you have it all. The fact is the great companies are made by people who make great sacrifices, period,…”

“Saying that, okay, I will do eight hours of work, and then I'll go outside and get balance. Is actually unbalanced, I think, because I think what you are working on should be something which you are both happy about, which you think has got purpose, and which …”

“Recently when I think about work-life balance, I don't use the word balance. I use optimization, right? It's this question of like, what are you optimizing for right now? Whether it's today or this quarter or this year with the understanding that I don't think…”

“Right now we still talk about work-life balance, which I think is just not the right way to address this problem, because it's not like work and life are at opposing ends, that in fact they rise or fall in tandem.”

“It's, you have to make, look, you, nothing is so extreme, it's one or the other, but there are people just fundamentally that make a choice, and some choose work, and some choose life, and I don't We grudge anybody which one of those two things they choose, bu…”

“That once you start thinking about balance and you think about living a holistic life, it becomes impossible, I think, in, in my experience.”

“People say work life balance is a thing, but it's not because you're either working or you're living. You can't do both. You can't really balance them unless you say I've got eight hours in the day that I'm committing to one thing and four hours goes into one …”

“When people are managing their work-life balance, they might think that, oh, well, I have something planned with the family and next year so I got that one covered. No, I think you're going to have to think about that every day. So the idea of an integrated li…”

“Forget about your hobbies, you're not gonna be a good friend, son, daughter, mother. You gotta ruthlessly prioritize, identify the things that really matter to you, and only do those things. It's not a good time to have a work-life balance.”

“I fundamentally do not believe you get to where we get to, unless you give up and sacrifice. I'm sorry, you can't have both worlds in my mind.”

“People often sort of sort of, Praise people who work incredibly hard, but actually what we should be doing is saying, well, surely you should be getting a bit more balance in your life, because that's a lot more healthy”

“This is the thing about work-life balance that the people are always complaining about, people who are working too hard don't realize is that, yeah, you want to think about work-life balance, but across your entire life. I mean, one of the things you'll do in …”

“Everyone talks about work-life balance. And I think that that's bullshit. Every time you say yes to something, you're saying no to something else.”

“I've actually never, ever thought about work-life balance. I don't believe in it. I think it's a failure of modern culture to seek work-life balance.”

“If we propose this idea of work-life balance. We're essentially saying that work and life are two kind of opposite things that can balance each other out, i.e. The two kind of nodes on the same spectrum, and for you to have balance, there needs to be some inte…”

“It's really hard to Focus on work when you know that you have a dog, you know, with Giardia that's going to the bathroom all over your house, or that your power keeps going out, or that your child is screaming and not napping, or needs to get to the doctor, an…”

“You cannot have healthy worth life balance and build a multi-billion dollar company.”

“To me work is not separate from life, and I think it's important for us to understand that just as taking a bath every morning is an essential part of a routine, or brushing our teeth is an essential part of a routine, Ah, we need to incorporate, and I, my per…”

“It's complete BS. And you don't get anywhere with work-life balance.”

“And one of the things that we learned was how work-life balance Beats all of the different perks that people offer, whether that's free food or we have a ping-pong tournament every week or things along those lines.”

“If you are going to strive for balance, it's much easier to achieve at the week level or the month level.”