ScrapSayings, Work

  • 9 to 5

  • The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success. - Brian Tracy

  • Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown

  • All work and no play will make [persons name] a dull boy/girl.

  • Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away. - Gerald R. Ford

  • And will you succeed? You will indeed (98 and 3/4's percent guaranteed!). - Dr. Seuss

  • Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

  • Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

  • Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante, actor comedian

  • Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The box said `Requires Windows 98 or better' So I installed Linux.

  • By the numbers.

  • By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things. - Ronald Reagan

  • Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what makes you go beyond the norm. - Cicely Tyson

  • Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

  • A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. - Brian Tracy (Author and speaker on human potential)

  • A cluttered desk is a sign of genius. A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.

  • Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford

  • Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of it. - Vince Lombardi

  • Dream DARE GO!!

  • Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. - Og Mandino

  • Diplomacy: the art of letting someone do it your way.

  • Diplomacy: the art of letting someone think that your idea is really their idea.

  • Do more than you need to; Care more than you have to; Learn more than is required!

  • Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail behind you. - Raulph Waldow Emerson

  • Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race. - Andrew Carnegie

  • Don't ask me, I just work here.

  • Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

  • Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.
    - Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  • Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles Schultz

  • Education, in the broadest and truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. - George Washington Carver

  • Effort: work hard to get good then work hard to get better.

  • An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
    - Roy Ash, President of Litton Industries.

  • Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. - Denis Waitley

  • Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley

  • Friends don't let friends use Windows!

  • A Geek shall inherit the earth. … Oh! That's right, Bill Gates already has.

  • Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
    - Jack Welch, Former General Electric chairman and CEO.

  • Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. - J. C. Penney ( American Retailer)

  • Go the distance!

  • Good Morning, Let the stress begin!

  • The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. - Og Mandino

  • Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.

  • Hard work must have killed somebody

  • Help me to meet my deadline, Save me from this mess, Ease up my workload. And please, bless my mess.

  • I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways how not to make an incandescent light. - Thomas Edison

  • I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't. - Bruce Jenner

  • I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment.
    - Doug Hall, Professional inventor and idea guru.

  • I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

  • I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like. - George Burns

  • I'd rather be working from home in my pajamas and Tweety bird slippers!

  • Ideas won't work unless ' I ' do.

  • If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

  • If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished. One thing I can't recycle is wasted time.

  • If I walk away from a frustrating page and come back to it with fresh eyes, I can usually see the problem immediately.
    - Jen Lessinger (editor at Better Homes and Gardens)

  • If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done. - Joseph Marshall Wade

  • If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars or your legs or your hands or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. - Dale Carnegie

  • If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi

  • If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else. - Brian Tracy

  • If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
    - Bill Gates (Entrepreneur, chairman of Microsoft, and philanthropist)

  • If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain

  • If you want to win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln

  • The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
    - Debbi Fields, Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies

  • Instant Human -- Just add coffee

  • Insufficient memory at this time.

  • It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
    - Martin Van Buren (1837-1841 eighth US President).

  • It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

  • It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  • It takes money to make money.

  • It takes time to save time.

  • It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

  • It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch, founder Weight Watchers International

  • It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw, Nightly News anchor

  • It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra

  • It's Wabbit Season! No, IT'S DUCK SEASON!! NO, IT'S TAX SEASON!!! (adapted from Looney Toons cartoons)

  • A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!!!

  • Lawyers have feelings, too, Allegedly.

  • A leader with no followers is just a guy taking a walk.

  • Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. True progress is when you make new, bigger, better mistakes and the next guy learns from them.

  • Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. - David O. McKay

  • Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy

  • The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people ; their motivation and direction. - Ken Gilbert

  • Maturity begins when we're content to be right about something without finding it necessary to prove that someone else is wrong. -Barbara Johnson

  • May the Source Code be with you, always.

  • Mission Statement:
    We the willing,
    Lead by the Unknowing
    Are doing the impossible
    For the Ungrateful.
    We have done so much for so long with so little,
    We are now qualified to do anything with nothing,
    overnight.

  • Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more. - Og Mandino

  • My job is secure, nobody wants it.

  • My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging. - Hank Aaron

  • Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. - Dag Hammarskjold

  • No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams

  • No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible, but they are involved all the same. - Stanislaus Lezczynski

  • Number crunching/ cruncher

  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

  • OLD ACCOUNTANTS never die, they just lose their balance

  • OLD ACCOUNTS never die, they are deleted

  • OLD BOOKKEEPERS never die, they just lose their figures

  • OLD COMPUTER PEOPLE/OPERATORS never die, they just lose their memory

  • OLD COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS never die, they just byte the dust

  • Old Computer programmers never die, they just decompile.

  • Old Computer programmers never die, they just lose it bit by bit.

  • On The Job

  • One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than half-a-hundred half-finished tasks. - B.C. Forbes (American Businessman)

  • The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
    - Vidal Sassoon (American Hairdresser, Businessman)

  • Organizing is what you do before you do something so when you do it, it is not all messed up. - Winnie the Pooh (AA Milne)

  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

  • Optimist: The glass is HALF full.
    Pessimist: The glass is HALF empty.
    Engineer: The glass is TWICE the size it needs to be!

  • Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbors, his fellow men and the cause of freedom. - David Lilienthal

  • Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams

  • People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. - Harvey MacKay (Newspaper columnist, author, and business motivational speaker.)

  • People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

  • Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston (American writer, historian)

  • The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

  • The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. - Leo Rosten

  • The pursuit of happiness is the journey of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what you might have been.

  • Pushing the Limits/Envelope

  • Quittin' Time!!

  • Ready to Roll

  • Resistance is futile!

  • Scientists Hypothesize - Programmers Flow - Mathematicians Prove - Engineers Do

  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

  • Some days are a total waste of makeup.

  • Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

  • Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last. - Scott Michael Durski

  • SS-DD → same stuff [usually (sh…) expletive] different day
    DS-SD → different stuff same day

  • Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. - Arthur Ashe

  • Success is not permanent. The same is also true for failure.

  • Teamwork: When the best and the brightest come together, the possibilities are endless.

  • Thank God it's May (after tax season)

  • Thank God it's Friday / TGIF

  • There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. - Colin Powell

  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills

  • There can't be a crisis this week! My schedule is already full!!

  • There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. - Bill Cosby

  • There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo

  • There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist. - Mark Twain

  • There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. - Vince Lombardi

  • There never seems to be enough time to do it right, and there's not always enough time to do it over, so plan your time wisely and do it right the first time. There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come! - Zig Ziglar

  • There’s a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It’s a nonrenewable resource. Once you’'ve spent it, and if you’'ve spent it badly, it’s gone forever.
    - Neil Fiore ( Author, speaker, and trainer on managing business)

  • This is a story about a guy, who like most of us, sometimes questions his existence, measuring himself to others, not believing enough in his abilities or his own worth. Then one day, his passion outgrew his fears as he stepped onto a stage, (Britain's Got Talent Show ) a stage that took him to a place beyond his self-imposed prison. When he walked out on the stage in his $75 suit and open dress shirt you could almost see what the judges were thinking. They pre-judged him based on his looks and the fact that he's a cell phone salesman. He started to sing and he blew their socks off!!! Maybe he just stopped believing in what people told him for so many years and ultimately started listening to his passion. (One of the judges was Simon Cowell `This was a complete breath of fresh air. I thought you were absolutely fantastic!')

  • Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

  • Trends and Technology

  • A true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

  • Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back

  • The ultimate inspiration is a deadline.

  • Use the Best: Linux for servers, Mac for graphics, Palm for mobility, and Windows for solitaire

  • The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino

  • We all have gifts: powers to varying degrees - and everyone has at least one gift - that is your particular piece of power. Acknowledging that you do have power is a major energy of change. - Dr. Lee Pulos: Self-help author

  • We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand. - Woodrow Wilson

  • We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

  • Weather you think you CAN or think you CAN'T - you're probably RIGHT!

  • What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas Edison

  • Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

  • When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. At least I'll learn something new. - Mae West (American Actress of the 20's and 30's)

  • When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.
    - Andrew Granatelli, Racing Icon and STP Oil Founder

  • Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
    - James Allen, Author, As a Man Thinketh.

  • Working hard, or hardly working?

  • You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end. - Sidney A. Friedman

  • You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford

  • You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. - Les Brown

  • You don't just luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. - Barbara Bush

  • You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder (1906-2002, American Film Director)

  • You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures. - Charles C. Noble

  • You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. - Les Brown

  • Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor, Self-help author and motivational speaker.