“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” — Josh Billings
“Education cost money. But then again so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
"Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when no one is looking."
~ Anonymous
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
~ Pablo Picasso
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” -Kin Hubbard
“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
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
"If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire."
~ Cannon’s Law
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“My boss told me to start every presentation with a joke. The first slide was my paycheck.” – Anonymous
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."
~ Anonymous
"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
“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
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
“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
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“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
“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
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” – Ogden Nash
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti
“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
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar
“Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.” – Proverb 10:26
“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
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'” — Don Marquis
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.” — Stanley J. Randall
“I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.” — Clarence Darrow.
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.” — Groucho Marx
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” — Author Unknown
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
"His insomnia was so bad, he couldn’t sleep during office hours."
~ Arthur Baer
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“I believe in hard work. But, it will take some time to make this believe into a real thing!"
~ Anonymous
“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