“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” – Ogden Nash
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” — Groucho Marx
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches."
~ Bove’s Theorem
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome
"Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss."
~ Jim Murray
“If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.” — Albert Einstein
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx
“Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.” – Proverb 10:26
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
“The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse.” — Dennis Miller
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell
“I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.” — Clarence Darrow.
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” – Fats Domino
“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?"
~ J. Paul Getty
“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” — J. Paul Getty
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
“My boss told me to start every presentation with a joke. The first slide was my paycheck.” – Anonymous
“My job is fun! I should change this line once in a while. My brain has started to realize that I am lying to it every morning."
~ Anonymous
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse."
~ Archie Bunker
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.” — William C. Feather
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil—and you’ll never get a job working for a tabloid.” – Phil Pastoreta consultant.” – Scott Adams
“Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way."
~ Homer Simpson
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr
Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
~ Ray Kroc
“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.” — Stanley J. Randall
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi
“I’m not retiring, I am graduating . . . retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.” – Junior Seau
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald