John Lennon Quotes

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

You’ve got two people working for you – Warrick and (Meghan) O’Sullivan – that you need to get rid of.

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

We need to have some people fired for reasons of public trust.

Who wants to get sacked? Not me.

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

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.

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.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

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

I let the American people down.

I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

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.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

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.

I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.

The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

It's hard when you let people down.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

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.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.