Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

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"The advertising man is a liaison between the makers of products and the public which uses them."
Fred Allen
"An advertising agency is eighty-five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission."
Fred Allen
"Committee: a group of men who individually can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
Fred Allen
"A radio comedian of today is like a court jester of yesterday, except the king is now a paying public."
Fred Allen
"The New York audience is the toughest in the world to win over, and the easiest to lose to."
Fred Allen
"Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission."
Fred Allen
"The advertising agency is eighty-five percent of nothing."
Fred Allen
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"The worst thing about being an actor is that it's so uncertain. You might work any day."
Jack Benny
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"I'm a working woman."
Lucille Ball
L
"The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's 11 o'clock."
Lucille Ball
L
"I won't be happy unless I'm working."
Lucille Ball
L
"If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life."
Lucille Ball
L
"Nothing replaces hard work."
Lucille Ball
L
"The most important thing is the work itself."
Lucille Ball
L
"I want to be remembered as someone who believed in hard work."
Lucille Ball
B
"Talent is overrated; hard work and dedication are everything."
Bob Hope
"The key to success is to find something you love and do it for the rest of your life."
George Burns
"It's pretty hard to be successful when you're lazy and shiftless."
George Burns
"The key is to keep working and not take yourself too seriously."
George Burns
G
"Work is only work if you don't want to do it."
Gracie Allen
"I like to play a character for more than one episode if possible."
Mae West
R
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Red Skelton
J
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Jack Benny
J
"Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."
Jack Benny
L
"I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious about hard work."
Lucille Ball
L
"I'm happiest when I'm working. That's when I feel most alive."
Lucille Ball
L
"If you're good at something, never do it for free—value yourself."
Lucille Ball
L
"Work becomes play when you love what you do."
Lucille Ball
"The secret of American success is hard work and the other secret is hard work."
Fred Allen
"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's business."
Fred Allen