“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
“Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.” – Proverb 10:26
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
~ Ray Kroc
“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” – Groucho Marx
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr
“Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we’d be here every freakin’ day.” — Ed Bernard
“Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. – Michel Tournier
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
“Getting paid to sleep… that’s my dream job.” –Unknown
“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
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown
“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
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
“The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches."
~ Bove’s Theorem
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.” – Anonymous
“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
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 takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” — Author Unknown
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
~ Niels Bohr
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” -Kin Hubbard
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” – Anonymous
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
“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
“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
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“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
“After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF.” — Anonymous
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“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
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden."
~ Orson Scott Card
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living."
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen
“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
"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