Dating People at Work

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax deductible.

— Andy Warhol

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. — Laurence Sterne

Delegation

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak (movie producer)

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

— A. H. Weiler

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

— Mark Twain

I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.

— Katherine Cebrian

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

— Goldstein S. Truism

Difficulty at Work

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 the office.

— Robert Frost

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

— Laurence J. Peter

If there's a harder way of doing something, someone will find it.

— Ralph E. Ross

When the going gets tough, the smart get lost.

— Robert Byrne

Diplomacy in the Workplace

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

— Lester Pearson

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

— Caskie Stinnett

Dream Jobs

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

— Paula Poundstone

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

— Marilyn Horne

You are never given a wish without also the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

— Richard Bach

What I aspired to be And was not, comforts me.

— Robert Browning

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

— Arnold Toynbee

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.

— Madonna

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

— Arnold Toynbee

Dress in the Workplace

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

— Warren Buffett

Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.

— Heywood Broun

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

— Dolly Parton

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

— Andy Warhol

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

— Oscar Wilde

Earning a Living

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most people are too busy earning a living to make any [real] money.