It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.\n-- Jerome Klapka Jerome
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
It is not enough that I should succeed.  Others must fail.\n-- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's [Also attributed to David Merrick.  Ed.] It is not enough to succeed.  Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal [Great minds think alike?  Ed.]
It is ridiculous to call this an industry.  This is not.  This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog.  I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.  You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.\n-- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's
It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
It's been a business doing pleasure with you.
It's fabulous!  We haven't seen anything like it in the last half an hour!\n-- Macy's
It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.\n-- Daniel B. Luten
It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.\n-- Peter Kennedy, chairman of Kraft & Kennedy.
Just because he's dead is no reason to lay off work.
Keep up the good work!  But please don't ask me to help.
Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back.
Keep your Eye on the Ball, Your Shoulder to the Wheel, Your Nose to the Grindstone, Your Feet on the Ground, Your Head on your Shoulders. Now... try to get something DONE!
Lavish spending can be disastrous.  Don't buy any lavishes for a while.
Lend money to a bad debtor and he will hate you.
Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number.  Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number.\n-- James Estes
Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
Life is cheap, but the accessories can kill you.
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.\n-- Josh Billings
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
Lo!  Men have become the tool of their tools.\n-- Henry David Thoreau
Loan-department manager:  "There isn't any fine print.  At these interest rates, we don't need it."
Lonesome? Like a change? Like a new job? Like excitement? Like to meet new and interesting people? JUST SCREW-UP ONE MORE TIME!!!!!!!
Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men.  That's the way businesses get started.  That's the way this country was built.\n-- Hubert Allen
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.\n-- Frank Hubbard
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.\n-- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.\n-- P.E. Trudeau
Make headway at work.  Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this-- no dog exchanges bones with another.\n-- Adam Smith
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.\n-- Arthur R. Miller
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
Many people are unenthusiastic about your work.
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
Mater artium necessitas.\n[Necessity is the mother of invention].
Maternity pay?	Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.\n-- Malcolm Smith
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
McDonald's -- Because you're worth it.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.\n-- Leonardo da Vinci
Men take only their needs into consideration -- never their abilities.\n-- Napoleon Bonaparte
Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.\n-- Piers Anthony
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.\n-- C.B. Luce
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.\n-- Christopher Marlowe
Money cannot buy love, nor even friendship.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.\n-- Bob Dylan
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money is its own reward.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Money is the root of all wealth.
Money is truthful.  If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.\n-- Lazarus Long
Money isn't everything -- but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.\n-- Sir Edmond Stockdale
Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Moneyliness is next to Godliness.\n-- Andries van Dam
Most people will listen to your unreasonable demands, if you'll consider their unacceptable offer.
Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.\n-- Xaviera Hollander [The world wants to be cheated, so cheat.]
My idea of roughing it is when room service is late.
My idea of roughing it turning the air conditioner too low.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.\n-- Errol Flynn Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. -- Errol Flynn
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb.  "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.\n-- Alfred North Whitehead
Neckties strangle clear thinking.\n-- Lin Yutang
Never appeal to a man's "better nature."  He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.\n-- Lazarus Long
Never ask two questions in a business letter.  The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
Never buy from a rich salesman.\n-- Goldenstern
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.\n-- Thomas Jefferson
Never call a man a fool.  Borrow from him.
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.\n-- Billy Rose
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.\n-- Quentin Crisp
Never let someone who says it cannot be done interrupt the person who is doing it.
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.\n-- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
Never trust anyone who says money is no object.
Never try to teach a pig to sing.  It wastes your time and annoys the pig.\n-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies.  You use them when you've got nothing else to try.  If they work, they go in the Book.  Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.\n-- Larry Niven, "The Mote in God's Eye"
No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel -- anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.\n-- Laurence J. Peter
"No job too big; no fee too big!"\n-- Dr. Peter Venkman, "Ghost-busters"
No one gets sick on Wednesdays.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.\n-- C. Schulz
No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
No skis take rocks like rental skis!
No spitting on the Bus! Thank you, The Mgt.
Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.\n-- A.H. Weiler
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.\n-- Nero Wolfe
Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.
Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work.
Nothing recedes like success.\n-- Walter Winchell
Nothing succeeds like excess.\n-- Oscar Wilde
Nothing succeeds like success.\n-- Alexandre Dumas
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.\n-- Christopher Lascl
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.\n-- Kim Hubbard
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.\n-- Dr. Johnson
Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.\n-- Thomas L. Martin
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
Once it hits the fan, the only rational choice is to sweep it up, package it, and sell it as fertilizer.
One good suit is worth a thousand resumes.
One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.\n-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up"
Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes.  I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.\n-- J. Wellington Wells
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits.\n-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Our country has plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.\n-- Roy L. Ash, ex-president, Litton Industries
Overdrawn?  But I still have checks left!
Owe no man any thing...\n-- Romans 13:8
People are always available for work in the past tense.
People seem to think that the blanket phrase, "I only work here," absolves them utterly from any moral obligation in terms of the public -- but this was precisely Eichmann's excuse for his job in the concentration camps.
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Please keep your hands off the secretary's reproducing equipment.
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas" until you are told that those rooms are "punched out."  Once punched out, we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.\n-- N. Meyrowitz
Porsche: there simply is no substitute.\n-- Risky Business
Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage.\n-- Ryan
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.\n-- J. P. McEvoy
Promise her anything, but give her Exxon unleaded.
Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.
Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Put your best foot forward.  Or just call in and say you're sick.
Put your Nose to the Grindstone!\n-- Amalgamated Plastic Surgeons and Toolmakers, Ltd.
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
Real wealth can only increase.\n-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.\n-- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
Recent investments will yield a slight profit.
Recent research has tended to show that the Abominable No-Man is being replaced by the Prohibitive Procrastinator.\n-- C.N. Parkinson
Regardless of whether a mission expands or contracts, administrative overhead continues to grow at a steady rate.
Remember -- only 10% of anything can be in the top 10%.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
Remember, even if you win the rat race -- you're still a rat.
Retirement means that when someone says "Have a nice day", you actually have a shot at it.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.\n-- Menander
Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.\nContrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is\nnot necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety.  They simply may\nsit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan after\nthey regain their composure.
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.\n-- Ernest Haskins
Sears has everything.
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
So you think that money is the root of all evil.  Have you ever asked what is the root of money?\n-- Ayn Rand
So... did you ever wonder, do garbagemen take showers before they go to work?
Some people carve careers, others chisel them.
Some people have a great ambition: to build something that will last, at least until they've finished building it.
Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
Some people only open up to tell you that they're closed.
Some people pray for more than they are willing to work for.
Some people say a front-engine car handles best.  Some people say a rear-engine car handles best.  I say a rented car handles best.\n-- P.J. O'Rourke
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
Someday somebody has got to decide whether the typewriter is the machine, or the person who operates it.
Someday your prints will come.\n-- Kodak
Someone is unenthusiastic about your work.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.\n-- Bill Vaughn
Success is something I will dress for when I get there, and not until.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
Support your local church or synagogue.  Worship at Bank of America.
Surprise due today.  Also the rent.
Surprise your boss.  Get to work on time.
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.\n-- Lazarus Long
Take everything in stride.  Trample anyone who gets in your way.
Take time to reflect on all the things you have, not as a result of your merit or hard work or because God or chance or the efforts of other people have given them to you.
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.\n-- Booth Tarkington
Talent does what it can. Genius does what it must. You do what you get paid to do.
Telephone books are like dictionaries -- if you know the answer before you look it up, you can eventually reaffirm what you thought you knew but weren't sure.  But if you're searching for something you don't already know, your fingers could walk themselves to death.\n-- Erma Bombeck
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.\n-- C.S. Lewis
That's life.\nWhat's life? A magazine.\nHow much does it cost? Two-fifty.\nI only have a dollar. That's life.
The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.\n-- Dwight MacDonald
The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.\n-- Sidney Harris
The absent ones are always at fault.
The answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is...\nFour day work week,\nTwo ply toilet paper!
The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was released with the kind permission of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries, and Other Professional Thinking Persons.
The average individual's position in any hierarchy is a lot like pulling a dogsled -- there's no real change of scenery except for the lead dog.
The best equipment for your work is, of course, the most expensive. However, your neighbor is always wasting money that should be yours by judging things by their price.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.\n-- Theodore Roosevelt
The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department.
The best things in life are for a fee.
The best things in life go on sale sooner or later.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."
The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.\n-- Stanley J. Randall
The confusion of a staff member is measured by the length of his memos.\n-- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
The decision doesn't have to be logical; it was unanimous.
The degree of technical confidence is inversely proportional to the level of management.
The difference between a career and a job is about 20 hours a week.
The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.
The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm.\n-- Travis McGee
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
