Nelson Algren Quotes

You can get fired from any job at any time.

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

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

I've never been fired in my life.

I hate being out of work!

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 will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

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.

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

Opening positions are opening positions.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Who wants to get sacked? Not me.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

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

None of my characters have really had jobs.

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

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

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