I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Andy Warhol

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

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

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost