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I am paying them for the quality of their work, not for the hours they work.

at Bridgewater the key shared values that maintain our culture are meaningful work and meaningful relationships, radical truth and radical transparency, an open-minded willingness to explore harsh realities including one's own weaknesses, a sense of ownership, a drive for excellence, and the willingness to do the good but difficult things, we look for highly capable people who deeply want all of those things.

"It doesn't matter how smart you are or aren't, you need to make up in hard work what you lack in experience, skill, intelligence, or innate ability. If your competitor is smarter, more talented, or experienced, you just need to work three or four times as hard. You can still beat them!"

Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a "lack of balance between efforts and rewards."

Working Time Directive, most recently ruling, in 2015, that the time spent travelling to and from your place of work must count towards your forty-eight hours.

The problem, as we've learned over time, is that the further away you are from the fruit, the lower it looks. Once you get up close, you see it's quite a bit higher than you thought. We assume that picking it will be easy only because we've never tried to do it before.

When you start to think about your company as a product, all sorts of new possibilities for improvement emerge. When you realize the way you work is malleable, you can start molding something new, something better.

"When work is enriching, life is fuller, and that spills over into the things you do outside work," he said to me. But "when it's deadening," you feel "shattered at the end of the day, just shattered."

From chemistry we know that gases expand to fill the space they are in; similarly, we've all experienced how projects and commitments tend to expand - despite our best efforts - to fill the amount of time allotted to them.

An hour spent at work is equivalent to trading an hour of your life for some cash. It is worth pausing occasionally to consider that exchange (ideally at work when you might get paid for the pause). * Do you enjoy your work? Or is it a pragmatic necessity that you must accept and make the best of? * How much would you pay for an hour of life? How much do you earn per hour? * Is this a fair/good/unavoidable swap? * Could you earn more for that hour of your life? Could you work fewer hours?

Jobs can provide people with more than just money. Voltaire wrote in 1759 that "work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice and need."

it is absurd to work at something you don't enjoy, purely to make more money to be able to live longer and continue doing something you don't like.