Maybe “Nobody ever got fired because of the later performance of someone they turned down,” but they might wind up in one of those lists that circulate all over the Internet (and by photocopied and faxed documents in pre-Internet days) of famous people who got humorously rejected, like the Beatles being turned down by a record executive because guitar music was going out of fashion or something. Of course, many of the things on those lists are probably exaggerated or even made up out of whole cloth.
Maybe “Nobody ever got fired because of the later performance of someone they turned down,” but they might wind up in one of those lists that circulate all over the Internet (and by photocopied and faxed documents in pre-Internet days) of famous people who got humorously rejected, like the Beatles being turned down by a record executive because guitar music was going out of fashion or something. Of course, many of the things on those lists are probably exaggerated or even made up out of whole cloth.