Said Musa Quotes

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Every 8-hour day is a nail in Germany’s coffin!

Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs.

I was in FCW for about six months. It was roundabout 2009; a lot of guys started to retire, and they didn't have guys coming in from other companies to replace them.

It’s being reported that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September. And that’s just people leaving the White House.

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

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 Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.

We're not going to let our companies be raided by other countries where we lose all our jobs, we don't make our product anymore. It's very sad.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.