Saturday, December 30, 2006

Fav quotes used in 2006

A roundup of some of my favorite quotes ... :)

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

"A good report is 10% inspiration, 15% perspiration, and 75% desperation"

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.

Take my advice, I don't use it anyway

Boldly going nowhere….

A fool and his money are a girl's best friend

"What if this weren't a hypothetical question?"

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

They say we should all pay our taxes with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.

If We Quit Voting, Will They All Go Away?

If I save time, when do I get it back?

Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make…

Pessimist – “things couldn’t possibly get worse than this” … Optimist (brightly) – “oh yes they can”

Those who think they know everything, annoy those of us that do

"It is not MY fault that I never learned to accept responsibility"!

Every morning is the dawn of a new error

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by

Everyone in life has a purpose, even if its to serve as a BAD EXAMPLE

Multi-tasking means screwing up several things at once.

Saving is the best thing, especially if your parents have done it for you.

I can resist everything except temptation

CAUTION: Dain bramaged

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

"When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?"

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."

"If you cant dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"

Why in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets

"I kinda love being a pessimist - coz' I'm either proved right, or am pleasantly surprised."

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading

Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.

I can see clearly now, the brain is gone...

"To make a million, start with $900,000."

Maybe this world is another planet's hell

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the person you can't live without...but whichever you do, you'll regret it!

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Fw: Resume

These are taken from real resumes and cover letters and were printed in Fortune Magazine:

1. I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience.

2. I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms.

3. Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.

4. Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.

5. Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.

6. Its best for employers that I not work with people.

7. Lets meet, so you can ooh and aah over my experience.

8. You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.

9. Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.

10. I was working for my mom until she decided to move.

11. Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.

12. Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No Commitments.

13. I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.

14. I am loyal to my employer at all costs... Please feel free to respond to my resume on my office voice mail.

15. I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and absolutely nothing.

16. My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in meterology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage.

17. I procrastinate, especially when the task is unpleasant.

18. As indicted, I have over five years of analyzing investments.

19. Personal interests: donating blood. Fourteen gallons so far.

20. Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain store.

21. Note: Please don't miscontrue my 14 jobs as job-hopping. I have never quit a job.

22. Marital status: often. Children: various.

23. Reason for leaving last job: They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 a.m. every morning. Could not work under those conditions.

24. The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.

25. Finished eighth in my class of ten.

26. References: None. I've left a path of destruction behind me.