Carly Fiorina Quotes

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.

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.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

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

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.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

Every year, jobs are on the line.

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

What I'm going to do is I will eliminate everyone in the comms team, and we'll start over.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

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

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

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

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?

How does a government reduce expenditures? To be absolutely flat about it, 99 per cent of it is accomplished by putting people out of work. Now that is a tough way to say it, but it is a fact.