Inspiration Quotes

"Whatever you do, always give 100% — unless you're donating blood."

- Bill Murray

"There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

- Peter Drucker

"People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The problem is they want a week's pay for it."

- Joey Adams

"A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time."

- William C. Feather

"Where people aren't having fun, they seldom produce good work."

- David Ogilvy

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

- Woody Allen

"Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you didn't have a plan."

- Larry Winget

"Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil—and you'll never get a job working for a tabloid."

- Phil Pastoret

"I'm not retiring, I am graduating . . . retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen."

- Junior Seau

"Get big quietly, so you don't tip off potential competitors."

- Chris Dixon

"I try not to make any decisions that I'm not excited about."

- Jake Nickell

"La vida, o es una aventura o no es nada."

- Helen Keller

"Un viaje de mil millas ha de comenzar con un simple paso."

- Lao Tzu

"Hombres necios que acusan a la mujer sin razón sin ver que son la ocasión de lo mismo que culpan."

- Juana Inés de la Cruz

"El mundo es un libro, y quienes no viajan leen sólo una página."

- St. Augustine

"Solo se vive una vez. Pero si lo haces bien, una vez basta."

- Mae West

"Muere lentamente quien no viaja, quien no lee, quien no oye música, quien no encuentra gracia en sí mismo."

- Pablo Neruda

"No he estado en todas partes, pero están en mi lista."

- Susan Sontag

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."

- Robert Henri

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

- Oscar Wilde

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour."

- Wernher von Braun

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it half-assed. That's the American way."

- Homer Simpson

"Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train."

- The Office

"The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse."

- Denise Miller

"When I was 16 I worked in a pet store, and they fired me because . . . they had three snakes, and one day I braided them."

- Steven Alexander Wright

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleges and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children."

- Alan Alda

"Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don't tell."

- Lisa Stone

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

- Reid Hoffman

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

- Warren Buffett