Funny Work Quotes

Bosses and employees won't be able to resist these hilarious work quotes.

Funny Work Quotes

“If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” – Dave Barry
“I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.”​ –Anonymous
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” — Groucho Marx
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
“It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” — William Faulkner
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben
"Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when no one is looking."
~ Anonymous
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.” – Mark Twain
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” – Charlie McCarthy
“I believe in hard work. But, it will take some time to make this believe into a real thing!"
~ Anonymous
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~ Al Capp
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
“When I was 16 I worked in a pet store, and they fired me because . . . they had three snakes, and one day I braided them.” – Steven Alexander Wright
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” — Josh Billings
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.” – Proverb 10:26
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.” – Anonymous
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.” – Drew Carey
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“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
“I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what thay means? You know what your boss was trying to say? It’s like, ‘Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.’” – Chris Rock
“Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we’d be here every freakin’ day.” — Ed Bernard
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” – Phyllis Diller
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
“Getting paid to sleep… that’s my dream job.​” –Unknown
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
~ Pablo Picasso
“I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.” — Homer Simpson
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
~ Drew Carey
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden."
~ Orson Scott Card
“The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches."
~ Bove’s Theorem
“Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.” – Winston Churchill
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."
~ Huey Long
“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 morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx