Quotes About Getting Fired

#1. Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.

Stan Van Gundy

#2. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. Getting fired, going out with a bang, leaving in disgrace ... these are all things I can do no problem

J.S. Breving

#4. Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

Kin Hubbard

#6. Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#7. 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

#8. I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.

Dreama Walker

#9. Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

Sophia Amoruso

#10. Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Getting fired from work paves way for a new beginning

Sunday Adelaja

#12. I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.

Lee Daniels

#13. Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place

Hal Lancaster

#14. Getting fired from work is not a tragedy

Sunday Adelaja

#15. A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. "Every no gets me closer to a yes," was the saying I used to use.

Mark Cuban

#16. It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Getting fired from work is not a death sentence

Sunday Adelaja

#18. When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

Dave Mustaine

#19. She longed for a man who'd be just her man, not some player who'd have a bunch of other women on the side. She wanted a man who'd work, not some jerk who was always getting fired because his job description was smaller than his ego. Someone reliable and solid, like her Grandpa Earl had been.

Eden Connor

#20. Getting fired is hard.

Alice Barrett

#21. There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they

Sarah Monette

#22. I thought of all my rotten jobs and how glad I was to have them.
for a while.
then it was a matter of quitting or getting fired.
both felt good.

Charles Bukowski

#23. Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

Joe Torre

#25. I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

Sally Kellerman

#26. Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

Gerald M. Weinberg

#27. I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

Lee Iacocca

#28. My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

Nick Offerman

#29. Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Seth Godin

#30. I never fired anyone for telling me I was wrong.

Graham Speechley

#31. I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Gillian Flynn

#32. I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

Michael Phelps

#33. When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

Tom Freston

#34. The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

Penn Jillette

#35. I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

Dierks Bentley

#36. You're getting into some kind of shape, cop."
Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."
Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone."
It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it.

J.R. Ward

#37. There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

Michelle Branch

#38. Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. They had changed coaches every three or four years before my getting the head job. It was just going to be a matter of when I got fired. There were a lot of people that felt that.

LaVell Edwards

#39. I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

Troy Glaus

#40. Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

John McCarthy

#41. That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

George W. Bush

#42. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

Bruce Campbell