Top 38 Quotes About Layoffs
#1. I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.
Peyton Manning
#2. what could be its biggest round of layoffs in history.
Anonymous
#3. By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
#4. Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
D.H. Lawrence
#5. There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#6. So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.
Yvon Chouinard
#7. Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
Robert Kennedy
#8. For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.
Susan Straight
#10. When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
Hailee Steinfeld
#11. How we respond to something is just as important - if not more important - than our initial reaction.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#12. Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.
Brad D. Smith
#14. He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the girl next to me and saying, "Ah, classic baby style.
Sam Pink
#15. A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
Timothy Ferriss
#16. AUGUST 5, 1981. That's the date it became official. It's rare that we can point to an exact date when a business theory or idea becomes an accepted practice. But in the case of mass layoffs, we can. August 5, 1981, was the day President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers.
Simon Sinek
#17. He's not as bad as everyone makes out. He might buy venerable old companies and strip their assets, causing numerous layoffs and the odd corporate suicide or two, but that's business. Inside, he's a big teddy bear.
Jasper Fforde
#18. I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.
Scott Ritter
#19. Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
Jerry Brown
#20. 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
#21. Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.
Howard Zinn
#22. Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.
Dave Goldberg
#23. But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
Scott Walker
#24. Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it's simply your attitude.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#25. Poet's Work
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoffs
from this
condensery
Lorine Niedecker
#26. When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
Wendell Berry
#28. Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
Allen Klein
#29. Acceptance is an important spiritual teacher.
Gina Lakes
#30. Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#31. For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He ... or she ... is cut short before he ... or she ... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.
Stephen King
#32. Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.
Donella Meadows
#33. I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.
Richard M. Daley
#34. Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
Ben Horowitz
#35. I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.
Robert Gibbs
#36. Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself.
Ted Dekker
#37. If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
Tom Peters
#38. I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
