#hire

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#company #cost #employee #experience #fire

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you. ↗

— Len Wein

#actually #becoming #beginner #get #harder

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. ↗

— Jack Welch

#big deal #deal #first #going #got

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#amount #care #country #cover #doctor

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#did #experience #film #get #good

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part. ↗

— John Glover

#artist #come #get #go #hard

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.' ↗

— Roger Goodell

#avoid #college #college level #coming #decide

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. ↗

— Jack Gould

#half #hire #i #i can #kill

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#any #care #changes #different #different way