Work Quotes

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

~ Benny Bellamacina

It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Like so many others of my tenure and temperament—stubborn ancients, I suppose—web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip, developing leads, fleshing-out the details, then telling the story. Now it stops with the tip. Just verify (hopefully!) and post it. I didn’t write stories anymore; I 'produced content.

~ Chris Rose

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

~ William Ritter

Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that infernal game, the place where only what reason you have can still work to some reasonable effect in a world gone mad.

~ Stefan Zweig

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

~ William Shakespeare

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have to go. Boss hasthis weird idea that I should actually work while he’s payingme.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

If you work you will never go hungry.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

~ George Burns

Every morning 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

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

~ Casey Stengel

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

~ Rita Rudner

My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

~ Henny Youngman

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

~ James Humes

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

~ Bertrand Russell

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

~ Robert Orben

Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.

~ Anonymous

Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.

~ Anonymous

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

~ Anonymous

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

~ Ogden Nash

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

~ Anonymous

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

~ John Steinbeck

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

~ Wendy Liebman

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

~ Robert Benchley

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so well myself.

~ Mark Twain

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

~ Bert Sugar

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

~ Lyndon Johnson

A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.

~ Anonymous

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

~ Anonymous

Few great men could pass personnel.

~ Paul Goodman

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

~ Fred Allen

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

~ H. L. Mencken

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

~ Marlon Brando

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

~ Daniel Boorstin

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

~ Robert Frost

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

~ Anonymous

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

~ Gerald Barzan

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

~ Oscar Levant

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

~ Calvin Trillin