Give Up: 150 Demotivation Posters

By Paul Koehorst and Ivor Jones

Do sugar-coated lies and cliché photos actually motivate you to do better? Of course not!

If you want to get ahead in life, you need to know how things really work. You need posters that reveal the cold, hard truth. You need to be demotivated. By offering demotivational messages accompanied by ridiculous images, the author turns the motivational message upside down with very funny results. Faux versions of the kitschy motivational poster are already a wildly popular Internet phenomenon, but never have they been done with such savage humor as in this book. The author offers a variety of entertaining options, such as a baseball player eating dirt while missing a fly ball paired with the caption "Humiliation: There's no Point Trying, You Just Look Ridiculous." Another poster pairs a distressed surgeon with, "Failure: Sometimes it is a Matter of Life and Death."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Feb 9, 2010
• ISBN: 9781569758045

Book preview

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SYNERGY

THE STRENGTH OF THE TEAM IS IN EACH MEMBER.

THE STRENGTH OF EACH MEMBER IS IN THE TEAM.

LONG STORY SHORT: YOU’RE HOLDING EVERYONE BACK.

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DISCOVERY

THE LONGEST JOURNEY BEGINS WITH A SINGLE STEP...

PREFERABLY ONTO AN AIRPLANE.

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MISTAKES

SOMETIMES THEY ARE A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.

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CHEATING

YOU’RE NEVER TOO YOUNG TO START.

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PROFESSIONALISM

IS KNOWING JUST HOW MUCH YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH

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DIVERSITY

DIFFERENT COLORS. DIFFERENT SIZES.

DIFFERENT REASONS WE ALL HATE WENDY FROM ACCOUNTING.

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TRUST

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRUST;

YOU COULD CATCH A LOT WORSE THAN A LITTLE KID.

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DEFEAT

YOU MAY NOT HAVE WON, BUT NOTHING BEATS A GOOD EXCUSE.

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FRIENDSHIP

BECAUSE SHE HASN’T LET YOU FUCK HER YET;

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INSPIRE

BE THE ROCK SOMEONE’S SUCCESS IS FOUNDED UPON,

THE FIRE IN THEIR EYES, THE WIND THAT PUSHES THEM TO THE TOP-JUST IN

CASE SOMEDAY YOU NEED TO HIT THEM UP FOR MONEY.

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