What's the use of being a genius if you can't use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
— Gerald Barzan
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
— Sid Caesar
Men of lofty genius are most active when they are doing the least work.
— Leonardo da Vinci
When a true genius appears in the world, you will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
— Jonathan Swift
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
— John Foster
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
— Don Marquis
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
— Robert Ingersoll
Getting Employment
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
— Stephen Leacock
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.
— Julia Morgan
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
— Publilius Syrus
The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.
— Diane Ravitch
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
— Elizabeth Arden
In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.
— Ed Wood
Getting Fired
I'm a man without a corporation.
— Robert Duvall on being fired in the movie Network
Nothing bad's going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; it's a midlife vocational reassessment.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I was fired from my last job for being too creative. I tried to design an off switch for a perpetual motion machine.
— Cartoon in The Joy of Thinking Big
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
— Matthew Broderick