Downsizing Quotes - Page 2

• I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

  Tom T. Hall

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

  John Hughes

  Jobs, Fun, Writing

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• I get all fired up about aging in America.

  Willard Scott

  Birthday, Fire, America

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• Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Stones, Form

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• I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

  Scott Stapp

  Want, Creeds, Hated

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• When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

  Adolf Galland

  Thinking, Giving, Arms

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• I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

  Chely Wright

  Dad, Player, Bass

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• I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

  Jamelia

  Water, Sometimes, Window

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• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed

  Gavrilo Princip

  Knowing, Knows

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• Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Fire

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. March 21, 2004.

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• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  Dale Dauten

  Opportunity, Names, Insightful

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• Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fire, Organization, Add

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• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  Francesca Annis

  Sound, Actors, Want

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• If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Winning, Ifs

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.159, University of Chicago Press

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• Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

  Samuel Dash

  Mean, Opportunity, Saying No

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• I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Strong, Business

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Ted Turner

  Lonely, Strong Women, Loneliness

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• It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Patriotic, Fire

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.140, Algora Publishing

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• You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

  Jerry Coleman

  Liable, Asks, Ifs

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• In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

  Sally Field

  Agents, Good Enough, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

  Peter Arnett

  Fear, Shock And Awe, Stills

  "Mirror scoops sacked NBC man". www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Different

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• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

  Nelson Algren

  Monday, Fog, Tuesday

  In Malcolm Crowley (ed) Writers at Work (1958).

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• In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Political, Target, Politics

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.95

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