“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”- Muhammad Ali
“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
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti
"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
"His insomnia was so bad, he couldn’t sleep during office hours."
~ Arthur Baer
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown
“People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The problem is they want a week’s pay for it.” – Joey Adams
“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
“Education cost money. But then again so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
“I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.” — Homer Simpson
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker
“In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse."
~ Archie Bunker
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
~ George Bernard Shaw
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
“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
“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
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” — Groucho Marx
“The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches."
~ Bove’s Theorem
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.” – Winston Churchill
"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
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."
~ Anonymous
“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.” – Anonymous
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” – Andy Stanley
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell
“If owl parties aren't called hootenannies, this world will never make sense again."
- Reverend Badger
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~ Al Capp
“I believe in hard work. But, it will take some time to make this believe into a real thing!"
~ Anonymous
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” – Phyllis Diller
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.” – Sam Ewing
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day!” — Anonymous
"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit."
~ Dwight Morrow
“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
“I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.” — Clarence Darrow.
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'” — Don Marquis
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar
“My favorite animal is steak."
- Fran Lebowitz
“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying. – Rita Rudner
“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
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” – Ogden Nash
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
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
“We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us."
~ Anonymous