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Accomplishments
You can fool all of the people all of the time if your effects budget is large enough.View Design
Achievement
You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.View Design
Acquisition
The discovery that you're no longer a big fish in a small pond, or even a small fish in a big pond, but a small fish in a big fish.View Design
Adaptation
The bad news is robots can do your job now. The good news is we're now hiring robot repair technicians. The worse news is we're working on robot-fixing robots- and we do not anticipate any further good news.View Design
Adversity
That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.View Design
Agony
Not all pain is gain.View Design
Ambition
The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.View Design
Apathy
If we don't take care of the customer,maybe they'll stop bugging us.View Design
Arrogance
The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.View Design
Bailouts
From each according to his ability,
to each according to his lack thereof.View Design
Beauty
If you're attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for being irritating to the core.View Design
Believe in Yourself
Because the rest of us think you're an idiot.View Design
Bitterness
Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.View Design
Blame
The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.View Design
Blogging
Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.View Design
Bravery
Every man dies. But not every man truly lives only to die of sheer stupidity.View Design
Burnout
Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.View Design
Challenges
I expected times like this - but I never thought they'd be so bad, so long, and so frequent.View Design
Change
Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason.View Design
Change (winds)
When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.View Design
Cluelessness
There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.View Design
Collaboration
When a motivated group of people join together, they can turn problems into opportunities. Especially drinking problems.View Design
Committees
Just like teamwork. Only without the work.View Design
Compromise
Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.View Design
Conformity
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.View Design
Congress
Proudly defending the status quo long after the quo has lost its status.View Design
Consistency
It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup.View Design
Consulting
If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.View Design
Corruption
I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it.View Design
Creativity
Helps artists die young, miserable, and penniless- so their art can have meaning to the old, satisfied, and obscenely rich.View Design
Curiosity
Some Places Remain Unknown Because No One Has Ventured Forth. Others Remain So Because No One Has Ever Come Back.View Design
Customer Disservice
Because we're not satisfied until you're not satisfied.View Design
Customer Care
If we really cared for the customer we'd send them somewhere better.View Design
Dare To Slack
When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness.View Design
Defeat
For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.View Design
Delusions
There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality.View Design
Demotivation
Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.View Design
Despair
It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.View Design
Destiny
You were meant for me. Perhaps as a punishment.View Design
Discovery
A company that will go to the ends of the Earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.View Design
Disloyalty
There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices.View Design
Disservice
It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one... the good news is that we should run out of them in no time.View Design
Diversity
Because every person deserves an equal chance to prove their incompetence.View Design
Do it Later
The early worm is for the birds.View Design
Doubt
In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world.View Design
Dreams
Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.View Design
Dysfunction
The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.View Design
Economics
The science of explaining tomorrow why the predictions you made yesterday didn't come true today.View Design
Effort
Hard work never killed anybody, but it is illegal in some places.View Design
Elitism
It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.View Design
Excuses
If you keep asking others to give you the benefit of the doubt, they'll eventually start to doubt your benefit.View Design
Failure
When your best just isn't good enough.View Design
Fear
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.View Design
Flattery
If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.View Design
Freedom
I may not agree with what you say, but I respect your right to be punished for it.View Design
Futility
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and, statistically speaking, 99% of the shots you do.View Design
Get To Work
You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.View Design
Give Up
At some point, hanging in there just makes you look like an even bigger loser.View Design
Goals
It's best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.View Design
Government
If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.View Design
Hazards
There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.View Design
Hope
May not be warranted at this point.View Design
Humiliation
The harder you try, the dumber you look.View Design
Idiocy
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.View Design
Ignorance
It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going.View Design
Incompetence
When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.View Design
Indecision
The mark of the leader is the ability to make decisions. The mark of the survivor is knowing when not to.View Design
Indifference
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.View Design
Individuality
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.View Design
Ineptitude
If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.View Design
Inflation
Because the easiest way to steal your wealth is by cheapening your money.View Design
Innovation
If it can make your job easier, it can probably make it irrelevant.View Design
Insanity
It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be. Especially when you're insane.View Design
Insight
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
The smart left a long time ago.View Design
Inspiration
Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99% perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.View Design
Intimidation
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent, but you'd be a fool to withhold that from your superiors.View Design
Irresponsibility
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.View Design
Laziness
Success is a journey, not a destination. So stop running.View Design
Leaders
Leaders are like eagles. We don't have either of them here.View Design
Legacy
It took millions of years to create something this extraordinary. You have about seventy-four.View Design
Liberty
The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.View Design
Limitations
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.View Design
Loneliness
If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.View Design
Losing
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.View Design
Madness
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?"View Design
Marketing
Because making it look good now is more important than providing adequate support later.View Design
Maturity
If you're tired of others looking down on you, grow the hell up.View Design
Mediocrity
It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.View Design
Meetings
None of us is as dumb as all of us.View Design
Mercy
Teach every child you meet the importance of forgiveness. It's our only hope of surviving their wrath once they realize just how badly we've screwed things up for them.View Design
Misfortune
While good fortune often eludes you, this kind never misses.View Design
Mistakes
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.View Design
Motivation
If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.View Design
Nepotism
We promote family values here - almost as often as we promote family members.View Design
Obstacles
Some things can not be overcome with determination and a positive attitude.View Design
Opportunity
I am Dr. Adewole Aremu- a director with the Union Bank of Nigeria in Lagos - and I wish to speak to you most urgently about a matter regarding the sum of $39,000,000 US Dollars...View Design
Overconfidence
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.View Design
Perseverance
The courage to ignore the obvious wisdom of turning back.View Design
Persistence
It's over, man. Let her go.View Design
Perspective
Less is more. Unless you're standing next to the one with more. Then less just looks pathetic.View Design
Pessimism
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.View Design
Planning
Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress.View Design
Possibilities
With focus, dedication and steroids, men can achieve impossible dreams. Like breaking a world record. Or growing their own breasts.View Design
Potential
Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.View Design
Power
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.View Design
Pressure
It can turn a lump of coal into a flawless diamond, or an average person into a perfect basketcase.View Design
Pretension
The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.View Design
Pride
The art of calling faith in yourself "Self-Esteem" while calling it "conceit" when you see it in others.View Design
Priorities
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.View Design
Problems
No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them.View Design
Procrastination
Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.View Design
Propaganda
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies right to our faces.View Design
Quality
The race for quality has no finish line- so technically, it's more like a death march.View Design
Recognition
Having your moment in the sun isn't always a good thing.View Design
Recovery
Time heals all wounds. But it usually leaves a pretty big scar.View Design
Regret
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes - but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second.View Design
Retirement
Because you've given so much of yourself to the company that you don't have anything left we can use.View Design
Risks
If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's great disappointments.View Design
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. And Robert Frost took the one less traveled. Of course, he also heckled his rivals and started fires to disrupt their poetry readings. But that makes for a terrible motivational poster. Unless you're a petty pyromaniac. In which case, here you go.View Design
Romance
Love is in the air. And it's pooping on my head.View Design
Sacrifice
Your role may be thankless, but if you're willing to give it your all, you just might bring success to those who outlast you.View Design
Sacrifice (Temple)
All we ask here is that you give us your heart.View Design
Sanity
Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can borrow mine.View Design
The Secret
What is The Secret? Pretend you've already achieved it- Then offer to sell The Secret to others.View Design
Self-Esteem
Just because you think you're a star doesn't mean you're going anywhere.View Design
Service
View all customers as beautiful buds that must be cultivated, watered, and periodically buried under manure.View Design
Strife
As long as we have each other, we'll never run out of problems.View Design
Stupidity
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.View Design
Success
Some people dream of success, while other people live to crush those dreams.View Design
Survival
The less you stand out, the longer you'll last.View Design
Synergy
A code word lazy people use when they want you to do all the work.View Design
Teamwork
A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.View Design
Tradition
Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.View Design
Tranquility
As long as there are children in the world, there will never be any real peace.View Design
Trouble
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.View Design
Underachievement
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower.View Design
Underachievement (Penguin)
Because soaring with the eagles requires so much more effort.View Design
Victory
Winners never fly higher than when they're bouncing up and down on the egos of those they defeat.View Design
Vision
How can the future be so hard to predict when all of my worst fears keep coming true?View Design
Wealth
All I ask is for a chance to prove that money can't buy happiness.View Design
Whining
If you expect to score points by whining, join a European soccer team.View Design
Winners
Because nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner.View Design
Wisdom
Sometimes the only difference between a budding genius and a blooming idiot is where they choose to take a stand.View Design
Wishes
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.View Design
Worth
Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important.View Design
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