Subject: Work (Page 21)

There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host
Entertainment Work

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

(1874 – 1963) American poet
Success Time Work

Businessman: One who could have made more money with less trouble in an easier line.

Definitions Occupations

Madam: Someone for whom the belles toil.

Definitions Occupations

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

(1915 – 1987) Brazilian/British biologist
Intelligence Occupations Science/Weather Work

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

ventriloquist dummy of Edgar Bergen (1903 – 1978)
TV/Movie Quotes Work

Incompetence tends to increase with the level of work performed. And naturally the individual’s staff needs will increase as his level of incompetence increases.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The more a recruit knows about a given subject, the better chance he has of being assigned to something else.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer
Housework Work

Never mistake motion for action.

(1899 – 1961) author & journalist
Situations Work

Auditor: A person who goes in after the war is lost to bayonet the wounded.

Definitions Occupations

He never seemed to be doing anything, and yet he did not like to be disturbed at it.

(1807 – 1892) American poet & advocate of the abolition of slavery
Characteristics Situations Work

The man who knows "how" will always have a job. The man who knows "why" will always be his boss.

Murphy’s Laws Work

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.

(1902 – 1983) English actor
Acting Entertainment Occupations

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
Communication Occupations Work

Psychiatry is a waste of good couches; why should I make a psychiatrist laugh, and then pay him?

(1958 – ) Australian author
Occupations Work

A good painter need not give a name to his picture, a bad one must.

Proverbs Work

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

(1899 – 1995) humorist
Money Occupations Time Work

What will get you promoted on one level will get you killed on another.

Murphy’s Laws Work

An executive will always return to work from lunch early if no one takes him.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Work