"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."
~ Anonymous
“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.” – Anonymous
“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
“Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon.” — 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
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~ Al Capp
“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
“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
“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
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."
~ Huey Long
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
“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
“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
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
“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
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” – Andy Stanley
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” — Author Unknown
“Education cost money. But then again so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
"Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when no one is looking."
~ Anonymous
“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 taxpayer—that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan.
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
~ Niels Bohr
“I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.” –Anonymous
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
~ Ray Kroc
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it.” — Groucho Marx
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi
“The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches."
~ Bove’s Theorem
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” – Dave Barry
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“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
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” -Kin Hubbard
“After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF.” — Anonymous
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
“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
"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
"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
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
“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
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'” — Don Marquis