Glenn Kelman Quotes

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.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

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

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

'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.'

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

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

I've never been fired in my life.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

In 2003 and again in 2010, I was fired from my job as editor-in-chief of a 'progressive' paper, Al-Watan. During the years in between, I served as media adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Britain and then the United States.

I've never been fired from an acting job.

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

Let me just be very clear: I'm just hopeful the coach doesn't dismiss me.

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.

Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

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

It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.