“The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches."
~ Bove’s Theorem
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
"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
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."
~ Huey Long
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost
“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
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” – Phyllis Diller
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” -Kin Hubbard
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
“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
“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
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon.” — Anonymous
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“I believe in hard work. But, it will take some time to make this believe into a real thing!"
~ Anonymous
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck