“You can’t stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.”  - Jay Leno

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.

Of course, Jay Leno has made us laugh for years as a stand-up comedian, host of the Tonight Show on NBC and now as a recurring character on the sitcom Last Man Standing. So he ought to know about making us laugh and how that humor helps to diffuse tense and angry situations. My coworkers agreed with him. His quote above made no one mad and is in the top 20 quotes of the year at number 20.

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