Layoff Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
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
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
Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect. — Jennifer Capriati
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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: