“Have a holly jolly Christmas.

And in case you didn’t hear: Oh by golly,

Have a holly jolly Christmas this year!” – Burl Ives

This quote is from one of my favorite Christmas carols. Written in 1962 and first recorded by singer Burl Ives later that decade, it has lingered as one of the most popular holiday lyrics for more than 40 years.

During the workweek I send out, potentially, hundreds of emails. I work for a nonprofit organization that employees over 70,000 people and my department has the opportunity to touch each of those individuals.

At the close of each email I post a quote from my collection of favorites. I change the quote on my outgoing work email messages once every three days. In 2018, there were 20 email messages that drew positive feedback from my coworkers. I have collected those quotes and ranked them based upon amount of feedback into the top 20 for the year. These are quotes that inspired my colleagues, moved them or made them laugh.

The catchy chorus inspired the Christmas spirit in enough folks to make this quote the 19^th most popular quote of the year. Now that you’ve read it, I bet the song will stay stuck in your head all day. And that’s just the way Burl Ives would want it.