Office Work Quotes:

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.38, Booklassic

topic: New York, Home, Office Work, Babylon

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Mean, Doctors, Office Work, Equal Power, Bangalore

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

- Gloria Gaynor

topic: Real, Office Work, Careers, Music Is My Life

Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Mean, Men, Office Work, Pointers, Salesmanship

Do your best with what you have where you are.

- Lucy Punch

topic: Where You Are, Social Good, Inspirational Achievement, New Career, Inspirational Charity

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Job Satisfaction, Inspirational Hard Work

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Appreciation, Jobs, Office Jobs, Office Work

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Witty, Funny Retirement, Office Hours

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement, Unsuccessful, Journey To Success

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

- Jerome K. Jerome

source: Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

topic: Funny, Humorous, Procrastination, Procrastinating, Fun Work

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Social Good, Failure In Life

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

- Edgar Bergen

source: Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

topic: Business, Work, Chance, Office Work, Work Hard Play Hard

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

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Motivational, Hilarious, Funny Leadership, Professional Career

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Witty, Work, Irish Beer, Irish Drinking

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

- Don Herold

source: Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

topic: Work, Procrastination, Laughing, Office Work

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

- George Washington Carver

topic: New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom, Social Good, New Career

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Appreciation, Jobs, Funny Work, Office Jobs, Office Work

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- Francis of Assisi

source: President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Take Nothing For Granted, Inspirational Achievement

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Success, Work, Stress, Important Work, Inspirational Stress Relief

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Luck, Harder, Best Success, Daily Work

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Motivational, Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

- George Halas

topic: Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done, Inspirational Office

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

- David Letterman

topic: Business, Shows, Accounting, Office Work

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Funny, Jobs, Life Lesson, Office Jobs, Office Work

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

- Saul Alinsky

topic: Creativity, Mean, Tactics, Social Good, Failure In Life

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

I don't do office work at home.

- A. K. Antony

topic: Home, Office, Office Work

There's no business like show business.

- Irving Berlin

topic: Business, Shows, Show Business, Office Work

Every day 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

source: "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning, Good Money, Funny Good Morning

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Office Hours

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.

- Jaron Lanier

source: Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Class, Ideas, Office Work, Disenfranchised

I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Dog, Witty, Home, Office Work, Up To Date