Funny Work Quotes

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

Funny Work Quotes

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."
~ Anonymous
“Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon.” — Anonymous
“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
“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
“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
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“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
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell
"His insomnia was so bad, he couldn’t sleep during office hours."
~ Arthur Baer
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying. – Rita Rudner
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” — Groucho Marx
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
“We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us."
~ Anonymous
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.” — Groucho Marx
“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
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.” – Anonymous
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
“I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.”​ –Anonymous
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” – Charlie McCarthy
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” — Author Unknown
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?​” -​Kin Hubbard
“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
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” — Josh Billings
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker
“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
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
“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
“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
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden."
~ Orson Scott Card
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
“The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” – Ogden Nash
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“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
Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali