Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Corporations are not people. Corporations fire people.

At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

We have tried voluntary codes and we have tried free markets, but they have not worked, so we need to try something else. Legislation is not a panacea for all the inequalities in the workplace, but it will go a long way towards stopping them. Effective employment legislation is needed

Thou shalt not take thy neighbor’s job.

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

In a market economy, the right to seek employment is fundamental … the issue goes beyond economy. It’s an issue of human rights.

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.

We present as a grievance the want of a law to prevent the hiring out of negro tradesmen, to the great discouragement of the white workmen coming into this province.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

I will continue to do all that I can to ensure and enhance worker protections, including the right to bargain collectively.

In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.