15 Quotes by James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

It was really weird, like asking someone for dinner and presenting them with an empty plate,

The non-compete clause, depending on how it's worded, could be the most potentially damaging from a practical standpoint. Especially today, when people move from job to job. Try to negotiate so it's taken out or limited so it's not a tremendous burden on you.

That's a real problem area for us lawyers, ... because depending on how important it is for a company to get rid of someone, they can go through a whole sham of pretending to restructure a company to justify a termination.

This is my 14th (store). Most have been in the Midwest. This one I think I like a little bit better, because I've had so much support locally. It's a combination of everybody working together on this one. It's a total community thing.

The employee wasn't stealing. Over 10 years, he had opportunities to take thousands and thousands of parts and he never did any of that, and he had no intention of doing that,