Society and the World

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable.

The sooner we get rid of losing, the happier everyone will be.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

He was as successful as a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

I haven't failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.

Nobody works as hard for their money as the person who marries it.

Working for Warner Bros is like fucking a porcupine - it's a hundred pricks against one.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have do something else.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

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

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

In the days when I went to work, I never once knew what I was doing. These days, I never work. Work does age one so.

I wish my son would learn a trade. At least we'd know what kind of work he's out of.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow dishes for Chinese restaurants.

I am glad to hear you smoke. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.