Layoff Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you…
— Ava Gardner
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You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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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…
— Dale Dauten
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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…
— Robert Gibbs
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Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.
— Jennifer Capriati
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Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of…
— Dennis Kucinich
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The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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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…
— Jerry Brown
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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,…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
— Jim Cooper
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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…
— Tim Ferriss
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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.
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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…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the…
— Gene Tierney
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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…
— Scott Walker
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The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were…
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Layoff Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Layoff Quotes as follows: