Top 32 Quotes About Downsizing
#1. Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.
Les Brown
#2. At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
John Lasseter
#3. Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
William J. Clinton
#4. I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."
Sefi Atta
#5. 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
#6. All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
Dawn Powell
#7. Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering
Richard Gerber
#8. 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
#9. I will starve till prophets find me,
I will bleed till angels bind me,
Still I sing till churches blind me,
Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.
Leonard Cohen
#10. But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
David Korten
#11. This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Henny Youngman
#12. [...] we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what to do with these people, and it's so sad, because being 50 nowadays isn't like being 50 a hundred years ago when you'd probably be dead.
Douglas Coupland
#13. 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.
Susan George
#14. Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times.
Gina Greenlee
#15. I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
Eric Holder
#16. When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
Lisa Randall
#17. 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.
Francis Chan
#18. But time brought healing,
Downsizing of ego,
And freedom from bondage.
Alas, neither damnation
Nor salvation
Would come -
No terror of some hellish fiend
Or apocalyptic fury
Upon his command.
There was nothing to fear,
And there was everything.
Kyrian Lyndon
#19. Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
James Surowiecki
#20. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller
#21. Much of what we acquire in life isn't worth dragging to the next leg of our
journey. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.
Gina Greenlee
#23. 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
Scott Adams
#24. In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
James Surowiecki
#25. Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright
#26. We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.
Debbie Stabenow
#27. 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.
Michelle Visage
#29. 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.
John L. Casti
#30. Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
Muhammad Ali
#31. The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
Jim Cramer
#32. There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
N. Robert Hammer
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