“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.” – Anonymous
“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’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
“I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what thay means? You know what your boss was trying to say? It’s like, ‘Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.’” – Chris Rock
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.” –Anonymous
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
“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
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
~ Pablo Picasso
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“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
“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
“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
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti
“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
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Erma Bombeck
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."
~ Huey Long
“We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us."
~ Anonymous
“Getting paid to sleep… that’s my dream job.” –Unknown
“No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“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
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.” — William C. Feather
“Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. – Michel Tournier
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
"Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when no one is looking."
~ Anonymous
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
~ Niels Bohr
"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
“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
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” – Phyllis Diller
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'” — Don Marquis
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“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
“The taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.