Quotes About Labor

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match the economy's needs.

I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.

Immigrants are critical to our strength in every essential industry, from agriculture and education to health care, domestic work, construction, food processing, technology, and many more.

It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and has no real control or isn't willfully producing a certain kind of thing. It is labor-intensive, and it is research-intensive. You are making one decision after another, trying to get at something you think is important.

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.

Factories are often at the heart of a community.

My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.