Nigel Rees Quotes

You’ve got two people working for you – Warrick and (Meghan) O’Sullivan – that you need to get rid of.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

I've never been fired in my life.

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.

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

If you fire him, you get two for the price of one.

When I fire, I just look at them and I say, 'You're fired.' I don't prolong it.

I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

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.

If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me.