Anthony Scaramucci Quotes

Al Davis fires everybody.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

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

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

Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.

When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.

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

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

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

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

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.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

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.

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

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

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.