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Some people say, ‘Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don’t you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?’ But that’s not me.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.