Top 30 Funny Office Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams

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2. “Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.”

— Doug Larson

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3. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.”

— Michael Scott

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4. “Do I want to be feared or loved? That’s a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”

— Michael Scott

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5. “Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.”

— Michael Scott

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6. “Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I’ll hit somebody with my car. So sue me – no, don’t sue me. That is opposite the point I’m trying to make.”

— Michael Scott

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7. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’”

— Dave Barry

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8. “I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.”

— Michael Scott

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9. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

— Mark Twain

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10. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

— Bert Lance

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11. “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

— George Carlin

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12. “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

— David Ogilvy

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13. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.”

— Jeff Bezos

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14. “Creativity is great-but not in accounting.”

— Charles Scott

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15. “I’m a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.”

— Merlin Mann

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16. “Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

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17. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”

— Thomas Sowell

18. “You can’t fix stupid.”

— Ron White

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19. “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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20. “I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room – by far – should be the occasional purring of the cat.”

— Linus Torvalds

21. “Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”

— Groucho Marx

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22. “Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”

— Gary W. Keller

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23. “Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?”

— George Carlin

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24. “Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself.”

— David Ogilvy

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25. “They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.”

— Brian Clough

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26. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”

— Isaac Asimov

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27. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

— Charles M. Schulz

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28. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

— Mark Twain

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29. “I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.”

— Robin Williams

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30. “Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?”

— Steve Carell

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31. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

— Earl Wilson

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32. “Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.”

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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33. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.”

— Robert Orben

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