Let's talk about the value of work ethic , which I believe is the most important ingredient of our success in your personal and professional life . When you worked in the White House for President Carter , one of your colleagues said you were the first person to arrive on the first day of the administration , the last one to leave on the last day , you were rumored to live in your West Wing office and you became semi famous when a magazine described your daily routine , which included regularly eating dinner from the White House vending machines .
You told the magazine that machine food is underrated . How important is work ethic on our path to excellence and this part of this , can we go back ? And can you tell us how many , what kind of time you put in a week when you first started your career and how much , what you're uh spending per week now , even after you're one of the most successful people in the world ?
And so whenever I took a job I would work very hard , hoping that , that it would , it lead to some uh success . And so when I got to the White House , um you know , I wanted to work there my entire young life and you get there and you're in the West Wing of the White House , the President United States is calling you from time to time for advice . You're flying around on marine one and air force one .
I've got my family office , I've got a lot of nonprofit boards I share and I got , um , you know , uh TV , shows and , and books and so forth . So I'm doing a lot and I do make a lot of speeches and get involved in a lot of philanthropic things that it takes time this weekend . For example , I'll be um sharing the Kenny Centers events with the Kenny Center , uh honors we have every year .
I'm looking for reasonable intelligence . I'm looking for a pretty good work ethic . I'm looking for people that know how to share the credit and get along with other people because you can't do anything by yourself .
