The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
— H. G. Wells
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few . . . if you are lucky.
— Pablo Picasso
I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
— Clarence Darrow
Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; Who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; Who never uses the word career as a noun — he is your friend.
— Roger Rosenblatt
Fun in the Workplace
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
— Maxim Gorky
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
— Colleen C. Barrett
The one important thing I learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
— Margot Fonteyn
When you're starting to have a good time, you're doing your job wrong.
— Workplace graffiti
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
— Katharine Hepburn
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
— A. Edward Newton
Work hard and smart, but have fun as well. The more fun you have the more productive you will be.
— Abe Bakhsheshy
Fun at work means enjoying what you do so much that the weekends come too soon.
— Del Rae Grose
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
— Dale Carnegie