Massive layoffs at financial firms. Banks refusing to lend…

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through…

— Scott Walker

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources…

— Yvon Chouinard

The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about…

— Steve Wynn

I've had a few layoffs that weren't up to me that were like six-to-eight months. I was like, 'Man, I could have fought two…

— Jim Miller

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was…

— Susan Straight

“The career coaching industry can only expand. Whether or not the economy improves. And this is because the corporate world has changed. Today, in…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One is to…

— Reid Hoffman

“Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective purpose at…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely…

— Mary Pilon

One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

— Adam Cohen

“from his company. After the stock market crash in 2000, Amazon went through two rounds of layoffs. But Bezos didn’t want to stop recruiting…

— Brad Stone

If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.

— Tom Peters

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…

— Donella Meadows

“Today, white-collar job insecurity is no longer a function of the business cycle--rising as the stock market falls and declining again when the numbers…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Overall, more than fifty-nine thousand factories and production facilities were shut down all across America over the last decade, and employment in the core…

— Hedrick Smith