“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.” — Groucho Marx
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.” — William C. Feather
“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
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.” — Stanley J. Randall
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden."
~ Orson Scott Card
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
“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
"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
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“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
“I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.” — Clarence Darrow.
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” – Ogden Nash
“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’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
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
“People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The problem is they want a week’s pay for it.” – Joey Adams
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
~ Niels Bohr
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“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
“We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us."
~ Anonymous
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
“Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon.” — Anonymous
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar
“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
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'” — Don Marquis
“Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. – Michel Tournier
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“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
“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
“In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse."
~ Archie Bunker