Firing People Quotes

#1. Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

Michael R. Burch

#2. I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]

Marcus Samuelsson

#3. You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

Ben Horowitz

#4. I hate firing people, we had to go through four crews, people are disrespectful but people do appreciate The Room and I love them all. That's why I am coming to Canada! I want to meet all my Canadian fans!

Tommy Wiseau

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

Martha Stewart

#6. Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

Sam Altman

#7. Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

Ron Livingston

#8. There are some people who actually enjoy firing. Beware of them. Firing instills a culture of fear that will inevitably fail, and "I'll just fire them" is an excuse for not investing the time to execute the hiring process well.

Eric Schmidt

#9. Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina

#10. Border agents have now been issued air guns that shoot pepper balls at people coming across the Mexican border. Have they thought this through? Is that going to bother people from Mexico? Pepper balls? Don't these people eat jalapenos? Isn't that like firing meatballs at an Italian guy?

Jay Leno

#11. Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

Moss Hart

#12. We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#13. I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Donald Trump

#14. There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Andy Richter

#15. I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

Douglas Wilder

#16. Laurie: Besides marrying for love is vastly over-rated. There will be no guarantees that love will last. But a million dollars lasts a long time if you invest it properly

Carol Grace

#17. Though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it

Herman Melville

#18. Music is the soul food.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

David Moore

#20. Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.

Rand Paul

#21. It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

Ryan Reynolds

#22. I will wait for you, Vivienne. I don't care how many centuries it takes before you're ready, but I will wait for you.

Bella Forrest

#23. Not kink, she'd purred into his ear, sending every nerve in his long neglected body firing. But not vanilla, either ... Zach understood now why some people were afraid of her. He was afraid of her ...

Tiffany Reisz

#24. Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#25. A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.

Richard Jeni

#26. Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#27. Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism,

Howard Zinn

#28. I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he's gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.

Brad Warner

#29. I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

Max Beckmann

#30. Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood.

Ally Condie

#31. Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

Christopher Moore

#32. Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn't be healthy.

Patrick W. Carr

#33. With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy. My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.

Lisa Shearin

#34. Of course, Mao made his mistakes, because everybody does, but at least he allowed working people to smoke, even in the most trying circumstances, such as when, for one reason or another, they found themselves up before the firing squad.

Tony Benn