Funny Work Quotes

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

Funny Work Quotes

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
“God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I will never die."
~ Bill Watterson
“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
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” — Author Unknown
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
“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
"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
“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
“Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon.” — Anonymous
“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
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” – Andy Stanley
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~ Al Capp
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” — Groucho Marx
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
“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
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen
"Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when no one is looking."
~ Anonymous
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us."
~ Anonymous
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
“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
“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
“Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we’d be here every freakin’ day.” — Ed Bernard
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.
“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.​” — Homer Simpson
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."
~ Huey Long
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
~ Ray Kroc