Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

A characteristically Orben-style one-liner, the joke frames work not as a virtue in itself but as a contingency plan: you labor only because you haven’t yet “made it” into the ranks of the ultra-wealthy. By invoking the Forbes rich list—an emblem of public, quantified success—the line satirizes status anxiety and the modern habit of measuring worth through rankings. The humor depends on the exaggerated daily ritual of checking the list, which exposes both the absurdity of obsessive comparison and the cultural fantasy that true success means never having to work again. It’s a punchy critique of material definitions of achievement disguised as motivational banter.