Downsizing Quotes

Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made...

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

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

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.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

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

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

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

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

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

Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.

In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

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.

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful...and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally.

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

Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

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

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

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

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.