Barbara Boxer (and everyone else):

It's just a thing -- I worked so hard ...

Seth Godin:

A lot of entrepreneurs get an MBA because they are afraid to go out into world without one.

Lara Stone:

I kept saying 'Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me,' because I had to get to the catwalk, but she just kept posing. So I pushed her. It was only a few stairs.

Tim Henderson:

After watching their parents -- typically both of them -- work ever longer hours in an increasingly around-the-clock and competitive world, 20-somethings wonder whether their 20s will be the best time of their lives or will be spent doggedly climbing the career ladder.

Jerry Weinberger:

Our pursuit of happiness first makes us unhappy, and then makes us poor because it makes us corrupt, which then makes us even more unhappy.

For a smart and lucky person in civilized society, the wise thing to do is to work hard and then retire as early as possible.

Decius:

Life is too short to spend 2300 hours a year working on someone else's idea of what the right problems are.