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Job Quotes for the Working Schmoe to Ponder

Funny, inspirational or just plain deep! Mull over these job quotes on your 15 minute break. If you see one you like, print it out on a mailing label and stick it to your boss' back. We promise we won't tell.

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"The trouble with the Rat Race is even if you win, you're still a rat"
- Lily Tomlin
"If you are what you do, when you don't you aren't"
- William Byron, S.J.
"Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads"
- Nikolaus Lenau
"My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh---anything but work."
- Abraham Lincoln
"There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
- Henry Kissinger
"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."
- Sylvia Robinson
"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.""
- Barbara Ehrenreich
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
- Gloria Steinem
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves."
- Lane Kirkland
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
- Marian Wright Edelman
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
- Orson Scott Card
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."
- Vaclav Havel
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity"
- Thomas Wolfe
"Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison."
- Tim Allen
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby
"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money."
- Johnny Carson
"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."
- David Letterman
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "
- Mel Brooks
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. "
- Albert Einstein
"I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."
- Ellen DeGeneres
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
- Charles M. Schulz
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something"
- Robert Heinlein
"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
- Albert Einstein
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one"
- Elbert Hubbard
"The next time someone's teachin' why don't you get taught?"
- Run-DMC
"Remember, what you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever."
- Henry Van Dyke
"There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand."
- John Milton
"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
- Roald Dahl
"There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living."
- George Sheehan
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman
"Ninety percent of everything is crap"
- Theodore Sturgeon
"Don't confuse fame with success; Madonna is one; Hellen Keller is the other."
- Erma Bombeck
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
- Steve Wozniak
"Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the path less traveled by. And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
- Richard M. DeVos