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

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The line sells a seductively simple upgrade to the tired corporate mantra of "work-life balance": don’t negotiate with your calendar, just rebrand the whole grind as fun. Coming from Donald Trump the businessman, it’s less a wellness tip than a management ideology. The intent is motivational, but also disciplinary: if work can be made "pleasurable", then the worker’s resistance to endless hours becomes a personal failure of attitude, not a structural problem of demands, pay, or power.

The subtext is classic Trumpian aspiration marketing. Pleasure here isn’t rest; it’s adrenaline: deal-making, winning, dominance, the high of momentum. That frames labor not as a contract but as a lifestyle, a self-image you perform. It’s an invitation to collapse boundaries, because boundaries imply limits, and limits imply you might be satisfied. In Trump’s worldview, satisfaction is a threat; appetite is the fuel.

Context matters, too. This kind of advice travels well in boom-time business culture, where the mythos of the entrepreneur depends on erasing the distinction between vocation and identity. It flatters the ambitious reader: you’re not overworked, you’re passionate. It also sanitizes inequality by implying anyone can alchemize pressure into pleasure if they just choose the right mindset.

As rhetoric, it works because it swaps a guilty word ("balance") for a glamorous one ("pleasurable"), turning a complicated trade-off into a swaggering one-liner. The cost is what it leaves out: sometimes the most rational response to work is not to make it fun, but to make it stop.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Trump, Donald. (2026, January 18). If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-youre-interested-in-balancing-work-and-6409/

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Trump, Donald. "If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-youre-interested-in-balancing-work-and-6409/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-youre-interested-in-balancing-work-and-6409/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is a Businessman from USA.

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