Funny Work Quotes

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

Funny Work Quotes

“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” – Ogden Nash
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~ Al Capp
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?​” -​Kin Hubbard
“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
"Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when no one is looking."
~ Anonymous
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali
“The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF.” — 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
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
"Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss."
~ Jim Murray
“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
“If owl parties aren't called hootenannies, this world will never make sense again."
- Reverend Badger
“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
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden."
~ Orson Scott Card
“Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.” – Winston Churchill
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.” — Groucho Marx
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar
"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."
~ Huey Long
“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” – Phyllis Diller
“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying. – Rita Rudner
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
~ Ray Kroc
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.”​ –Anonymous
“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
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“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
"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
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
~ Pablo Picasso
“We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us."
~ Anonymous
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – 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