Funny Work Quotes

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

Funny Work Quotes

“The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?​” -​Kin Hubbard
“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
“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 always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.”​ –Anonymous
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“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
“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
“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying. – Rita Rudner
“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali
“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
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
"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
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.” — Groucho Marx
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.” — Clarence Darrow.
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” — Josh Billings
“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
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
“Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.” – Proverb 10:26
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
~ Ray Kroc
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
"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
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~ Al Capp
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“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
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” — Groucho Marx
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” — Author Unknown
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” – Charlie McCarthy
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
“It’s a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children."
~ Alan Alda
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.” – Anonymous
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
“As I have gotten older and wiser I discovered that there are six things that I really loved about my job. Pay day, lunch time, quitting time, vacation time, holidays, and of course retirement.” — Tom Goins
“In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse."
~ Archie Bunker