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July 5, 2025
Work/Businesses

“Pro tip: Always take the day off after the day you return from vacation”

"Always take the day off after the day you return from vacation" is a work saying that was posted on X/Twitter -- the tweet is no longer there -- by MrsBundrige on July 18, 2021. Most…

February 7, 2025
Work/Businesses

“Pro tip: You can’t have a bad day at work if you don’t go”

"You can't have a bad day at work if you don't go" is a work saying that has been printed on many images. Authorship of the saying is unknown. "You can't have a bad…

February 17, 2025
Work/Businesses

“Procrastination is a dish best served eventually”

"Procrastination is a dish best served eventually" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. Delaying procrastination is an irony. "..procrastination is a dish best…

February 17, 2025
Work/Businesses

“Procrastination is a dish best served some other time”

"Procrastination is a dish best served eventually" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. Delaying procrastination is an irony. "..procrastination is a dish best…

November 14, 2020
Work/Businesses

“Procrastination is a good thing. You always have something to do tomorrow and nothing to do today”

"Procrastination is totally a good thing. You always have something to do tomorrow and nothing to do today" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. "Procrastination…

June 3, 2018
Work/Businesses

“Procrastination is easier done than said”

"Easier said than done" is an old saying. "Procrastination is easier done than said" was posted on Twitter on September 19, 2010, and again on Twitter on April 1, 2011.…

June 30, 2018
Work/Businesses

“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried”

Entry in progress -- B.P."Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried" is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. HuffPostTHE BLOG 07/13/2016 03:45 pm…

May 12, 2015
Work/Businesses

“Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind”

"Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind" is a popular saying that has been credited to brand designer Walter Landor (1913-1995). It's uncertain when he…

May 25, 2019
Work/Businesses

“Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity”

"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity" is a saying that has been printed on many images. Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965) was…

June 8, 2020
Work/Businesses

“Promiscuous girls are like Walmart…” (NSFW joke)

Walmart stores are often open 24 hours a day. "Sluts are like Walmart.Everybody makes fun of them,but at 4am when ur inside of 1,ur like 'I'm kinda glad these are around'(Joke…

May 11, 2016
Work/Businesses

“Prophets are going through the roof” (joke)

"Profits are going through the roof" is an expression meaning that a business is generating a lot of money. A joke has been printed on several images: "I opened a company selling…

November 12, 2017
Work/Businesses

“Prostitution is a hole sale business”

"Prostitution is a hole sale business" is a pun on the term "wholesale." The one-line saying was posted (along with similar sayings) on the newsgroup NAFL on September 23, 2005.…

September 9, 2012
Work/Businesses

“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

To "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" means to succeed without outside help. "Over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots" was cited in…

March 13, 2015
Work/Businesses

“Put on your big girl panties and deal with it”

"Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!" (or "Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!") is a jocular saying that has been printed on many posters and a popular…

February 5, 2024
Work/Businesses

“Put on your positive pants”

"Put on your positive pants" (or "Put your positive pants on") is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. "Monday is a state of mind. Put on your…

February 5, 2024
Work/Businesses

“Put your positive pants on”

"Put on your positive pants" (or "Put your positive pants on") is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. "Monday is a state of mind. Put on your…

March 14, 2016
Work/Businesses

“Quality is the best business plan”

"Quality is the best business plan" is a saying that has been printed on many images. John Lasseter, an American animator and the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, is…

October 24, 2015
Work/Businesses

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking”

Entry in progress -- B.P."Quality means doing it right when no one is looking" is a saying that has been printed on many posters and is usually credited to American automaker Henry Ford…

November 21, 2025
Holidays/Events/ParadesMusic/Dance/Theatre/Film/CircusWork/Businesses

“Quit complaining about stores playing Christmas music in November and start writing some Thanksgiving songs…”

Stores often play Christmas music in November. What about Thanksgiving songs? This was posted on X/Twitter by soul nate on November 24, 2021, and it received over 58,000 likes: "quit…

July 4, 2018
Work/Businesses

“Quitters never win, and winners never quit talking about how they won”

“A winner never quits and a quitter never wins” is an old saying. "Winners never quit... talking about being a winner" was posted on Twitter on January 28, 2011. "Quitters never…

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