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Business/Employment

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.

-- Anonymous

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.

-- Robert Benchley

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

-- Betty Bender

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

-- Kenneth H. Blanchard

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

-- George Crane

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

-- Albert Einstein

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

Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad.

-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.

-- John G. Pollard

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

-- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

-- Tom Robbins

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

-- The Peter Principle

Work is a four-letter word.

-- The Smiths (Morrissey)

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

-- Oscar Wilde