Top 100 You're Fired Quotes
#1. [He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
Sally Field
#3. Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
Donald Trump
#4. I never should have done 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I didn't want to do it because I didn't want Donald Trump to say, 'You're fired.'
Sinbad
#5. I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
Martha Stewart
#6. I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'
Michael Gove
#7. When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.
Harvey MacKay
#8. Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.
Lisa Wingate
#9. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
David Mamet
#10. 'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
Donald Trump
#11. If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
John Madden
#12. When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.
Malcolm Forbes
#13. Weddings are about fantasies - you understand? Your job is to photograph the fantasy, not the reality. Never the reality. If I ever see another picture like that, you're fired.
Mira Jacob
#14. I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
Donald Trump
#16. Elizabeth lifted her head and glared at him. "I don't want you to take me home. You're fired."
"So you told me. I'm taking you home anyway. You can fire me again when we get there."
"Okay." Her head dropped to his shoulder, and she was blissfully quiet on the ride home.
Jaci Burton
#17. Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn't tell Donald Trump, 'You need to fire your barber. I'm sorry. I ain't feeling you, man. You're fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.'
Sinbad
#18. You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.
Donald Trump
#19. You're fired," he groaned as he buried his face in my hair. "So fucking fired.
Vi Keeland
#20. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.
George W. Bush
#21. People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio. Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape.
Bill Burr
#22. Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
Bill Murray
#23. I'm not a great hunter. But I have fired guns in the past, when I was growing up. But it was part of growing up where I lived. You go out hunting or target practice. They also taught you to respect guns.
Scott Wilson
#24. If a bullet's going to get you, it's already been fired.
Ben Fountain
#25. When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.
Tim Howard
#26. You should try to get fired once in a while. It's good for you.
Greg Gutfeld
#27. Baby, if I wanted to have you fired, I would. I want to fuck you, but not when you're being paid to be my date.
Sydney Landon
#28. Many reporters believed, Dvorak writes, that if you ended up in the 'needs work' category, Microsoft would take pains to try and have you fired.
Linsey McGoey
#29. (An astrologer of a London tabloid was once fired by means of a letter from his editor which began, "As you will no doubt have foreseen.")
Christopher Hitchens
#30. How can you get fired from the company you started?
Steve Jobs
#31. I know," I told him. "It sounds insane. It is insane."
His eyes fixed on mine. "You killed someone," he said, his voice barely audible. "With a shoe."
"He had a sword," I fired back and then, to my shock, David burst out laughing.
Rachel Hawkins
#32. Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
Steve Martin
#33. At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.
Chris Pine
#34. What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
Michael Scott
#35. You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.
Bill Hybels
#36. It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.
Michaela Watkins
#37. He would often say, 'The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,
Ashlee Vance
#38. Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window!
LaVyrle Spencer
#39. Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions
Sunday Adelaja
#40. I'm sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It's just that my band needs a real bass player now. We're not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?'
That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.
Daniel Ehrenhaft
#41. If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
Gabrielle Reece
#42. One employee missed an event to witness the birth of his child. Musk fired off an e-mail saying, "That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't."*
Ashlee Vance
#43. I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.
Tom Selleck
#44. You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
Jerry Coleman
#45. Why can't I be enough for you?" he asked hoarsely, clearly hurt.
"That's bullsh*t," I fired back. "It has nothing to do with enough and everything to do with wanting everyone to know that you're with me.
Mary Calmes
#46. Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.
Ewan McGregor
#47. The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.
Francis Ford Coppola
#48. 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
#49. Every time you start a new job, you're starting from the beginning again and it's terrifying. And you feel like you're going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.
Emily Mortimer
#50. My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.
David Pogue
#51. A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.
Mika Brzezinski
#52. 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
#53. It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'
Nicholas Brendon
#54. If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
Zig Ziglar
#55. I catch you without your ahstrux nohtrum again, I'm turning you in."
Qhuinn cursed. "Yeah, and then I'll get fired. Which means V'll Donald trump my ass with a dagger. You're welcome.
J.R. Ward
#56. They've had several conversations since that day in Owings Mills when Bisciotti fired him. "He said at some point we will sit down and have a glass of wine in that new house of yours," Billick said. Billick had the perfect response. "It's the least I can do, because you're paying for it.
Gary Myers
#57. 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.
Leo Durocher
#58. I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
Alan Rickman
#59. Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming.
Susan Elia MacNeal
#60. I worked for Harper's Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it's a great learning experience.
Anna Wintour
#61. I know many fine feathered friends But their friendliness depends on how you do They know many sure fired ways, To find out the one who pays And how you do
Cat Stevens
#62. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'
Tom Seaver
#63. People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
Kassie DePaiva
#64. When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
Joe Torre
#65. Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag
#66. Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.
Paulo Coelho
#67. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
Ernest Rutherford
#68. A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.
Bette Lee Crosby
#69. It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.
John Mulaney
#70. There's a reason I always look nice when I go to work." I kept a scowl on my face while she hustled me upstairs.
"Because you'll get fired if you look like a slob?"
"Because, my little grouch, it makes me feel better on the inside if I like how I look on the outside.
Stephie Davis
#71. If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there
Anton Chekhov
#72. The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God
Sunday Adelaja
#73. 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
#74. You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
Doc Rivers
#75. 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
#76. You think the whole electrical system is fried?" Chuck said, "Good possibility." "That would mean fences." Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and fired it into the wall. "Stee-rike one!" He turned to Teddy. "That would mean fences, yes.
Dennis Lehane
#77. When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.
Michael Bloomberg
#78. when you go after the perfect architecture. The difference between the right architecture and the perfect architecture is the difference between finishing a project, and being fired for never finishing the project. You need to seek an architecture that meets the purpose of the project.
Bett Correa-Bollhoefer
#79. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.
Meljean Brook
#80. There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.
Dennis Quaid
#81. You might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.
Jeff Foxworthy
#82. If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.
Jorja Fox
#83. In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#84. Producers say things that they would like to see in the movie but they don't see the full picture. In the end if you ignore everything the producers say, of course, you get fired; but then if you listen to a producer on everything then it's like 'Hey - why don't you direct your own movie?'
Ryuhei Kitamura
#85. I was going to have to tell people I got fired from selling dildos. I can't even sell fake cocks to a room full or horny women. How do you come back from that shit?
Tara Sivec
#86. There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they
Sarah Monette
#87. Touched by an angel, my ass!" roared the woman, whom I recognized despite the ash covering her face: Moondance. "I'll touch you, asshole!" She fired again.
Carol Goodman
#88. Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.
Mark Twain
#89. No! I will not calm down! He should be fired. WE should have him fired! You're clearly depressed and he needs to help you. He can't tell you to try harder next time That's sick! SICK!
Kate Brian
#90. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
Anton Chekhov
#91. Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.
Lee Child
#92. The ISS moves so quickly that if you fired a rifle bullet from one end of a football field,7 the International Space Station could cross the length of the field before the bullet traveled 10 yards.8
Randall Munroe
#93. A soldier must be like a bullet, constantly ready to be fired.' I learnt that by heart. You go to war in order to kill. Killing is my profession - that's what I was trained to do.
Svetlana Alexievich
#94. Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.
Lee Child
#95. Every situation is different. A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.
Daniel Radcliffe
#96. I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.
Ellen DeGeneres
#97. But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.
Gil Kane
#98. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.
Hannah More
#99. I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.
Richard Armitage
#100. So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.
Michael Shanks
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