Downsizing Quotes

• Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Money, Work

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.206, Hachette UK

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• Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Decision, May

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• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Technology, Practice

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• Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Insightful, Marketing, Economy

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• A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.32, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  Wanda Sykes

  Government, People, Comedy

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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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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Ted Turner

  Lonely, Strong Women, Loneliness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

  Donald Trump

  People, Walks, Streets

  Ken Lawrence, Donald Trump (2005). “The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

  Howard Stern

  Wall, Kids, Vicious

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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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• 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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• I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, People, Said

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• It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

  Ron Livingston

  Jobs, Work, Fire

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

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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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• 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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• 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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