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商业/工作 business/employment

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous

 

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
-- Robert Benchley

 

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender

 

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard

 

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane

 

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein

 

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost

 

Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994

 

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln

 

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard

 

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
-- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

 

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins

 

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

 

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
  • In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
  • Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
  • -- The Peter Principle

     

    Work is a four-letter word.
    -- The Smiths (Morrissey)

     

    Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
    -- Oscar Wilde