Top 200 Friday Quotes for Work (2025 Update)

1. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

2. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Quotes for Work

3. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

4. “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

5. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

6. “Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Friday Motivational Quotes, Creative Quotes

7. “A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”

— Robert Herjavec

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Time Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Hustle Quotes

8. “Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Quotes About Work, Purpose Quotes

9. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Efficiency Quotes, Productivity Quotes

10. “People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.”

— John Maeda

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Productivity Quotes

11. ““Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.”

— Sahil Lavingia

Also featured in: Startup Quotes

12. “Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Short Inspiring Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

13. “Stay focused on the mission.”

— Naveen Jain

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

14. “We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.”

— W. Edwards Deming

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students

15. “There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Marketing Quotes

16. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Performance Quotes

17. “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”

— Patrick Lencioni

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Performance Quotes

18. “Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders – in that order.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Positive Motivation Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

19. “When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

20. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

— James C. Collins

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Quotes About People, Teamwork Quotes

21. “Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.”

— Sallie Krawcheck

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Professional Growth Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Making Money Quotes

22. “Customer service is not a department, it’s everyone’s job.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Service Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes, Helping Quotes

23. “Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.”

— Nolan Bushnell

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Passion Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

24. “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Quotes About Work

25. “Forget yourself and go to work.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

26. “Professional is not a label you give yourself – it’s a description you hope others will apply to you.”

— David Maister

27. “It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours.”

— Sam Ewing

Also featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Time Management Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

28. “If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Performance Quotes, Efficiency Quotes, Statistics Quotes

29. “Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Sales Motivational Quotes

30. “Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

— Gary W. Keller

Also featured in: Work-Life Balance Quotes, Quotes About Balance

31. “Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Service Quotes, Engagement Quotes

32. “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Marketing Quotes

33. “Let’s work the problem, people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing.”

— Gene Kranz

Also featured in: Problem-Solving Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Space Quotes

34. “Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.”

— Narendra Modi

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

35. “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”

— Douglas Conant

Also featured in: Career Development Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Boss Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

36. “Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.”

— Ian Hutchinson

Also featured in: Engagement Quotes

37. “Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream of. That’s easy. It’s about whether or not it’s important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.”

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Making Money Quotes

38. “Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Career Development Quotes

39. “When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee’s skill, he doesn’t just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.”

— Shawn Achor

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Engagement Quotes, Employee Appreciation Quotes

40. “Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, Career Development Quotes

41. “I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

42. “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Also featured in: Career Development Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

43. “Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone’s job.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes

44. “Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

45. “They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can’t outwork me.”

— Woody Hayes

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Competition Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

46. “People are our greatest asset .”

— Dave Ulrich

Also featured in: Employee Appreciation Quotes

47. “People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Dedication Quotes

48. “Work faster, smarter and harder.”

— Larry Winget

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Efficiency Quotes, Quotes About Work, Tuesday Work Quotes

49. “The treasure you seek is in the work you’re avoiding.”

— Jim Kwik

Also featured in: Professional Growth Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

50. “Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it.”

— David Halberstam

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Duty Quotes, Work Hard Quotes