The saying that “Early to Bed & Early to Rise, makes you health, wealthy and wise” seems to have become a passe. Especially when it comes to some extremely successful and extremely hardworking people. You will be surprised to see and calculate the time they dedicate for sleeping. Rather their dedication is all directed towards the work.
Calling them workaholic will be wrong, they are just way too dedicated than one can even think of.
1. Tim Cook, Apple CEO
For Apple CEO Tim Cook, “sleeping in” means waking up at 4:30 a.m. After all, that’s about 45 minutes later than usual. That is why people who have worked with are not surprised when they receive official mail at 4:30 am.
2.Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey
How to burn midnight oil is to be learnt from Twitter & Square founder Jack Dorsey. After all managing two companies is not an easy task. He devotes 8-10 hours to each of his company and what ever time is left after it is for sleeping. Calculate the time!
3. Disney CEO Bob Iger
Given the multi-tasker that he is waking up at 4:30 am early morning daily is just to keep tabs on all that’s happening and to claim some time to read newspapers, exercise, listen to music, look at email and watch TV all at once
4. Former US President George W Bush
The former US President runs to the office and punchs in at 6:45 am and runs on marathon of meeting during this ripe hours. Horror for the other staffs, I say!! 😛
5. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz
Schultz starts his day with a workout, which is usually a bike ride with his wife, but still gets to the office by 6 a.m.
6. Shah Rukh Khan
I sleep for three hours a day generally. I can see everybody in deep sleep around me even when I am on flight. When I was travelling to Singapore, everybody would catch up with a little nap but I just couldn’t. I was wide awake. Gauri is sometimes concerned about this and keeps telling me that I should slow down a bit, and catch up on my sleep.”
7. Narendra Modi
The 63-year-old Indian prime minister is known to be a workaholic. It is believed he hardly sleeps for more than 3-4 hours in a day. When you have a country to run, sleep is a trivial concern.
8. Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi
One of the world’s most prominent female executives since getting Pepsi’s top job in 2007, Nooyi sleeps a meager four hours a night, according to CNN Money. She’s no stranger to long hours, having worked the graveyard shift as a receptionist while getting her Master’s at Yale.
9.Richard Branson
Richard Branson is responsible for running over 400 companies under the Virgin banner—but that doesn’t stop this multi-tasking businessman from staying fit, eating a good breakfast and his favorite sport, kite boarding. But the successful businessman gets up as early as 5.45 a.m.
10 . Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior
Although she doesn’t run right to the office upon waking up at 4:30 a.m., Warrior spends an hour on email, reads the news, works out and gets her son ready for school. And she is still in the office by 8:30 at the latest