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Quotes About Workforce

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.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
Since becoming Governor, I have made it my priority to increase employment opportunities for all Alabamians.
~ Kay Ivey
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
~ Kathleen Wynne
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
~ Tim Scott
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
~ Laurie Helgoe
In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.
~ Teresita Sy-Coson
There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
~ John W. Thompson
The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means the more people will get employed. It's better for the economy. It's a fantastic thing.
~ Kevin Spacey
We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.
~ Bill Evans
As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.
~ Tino Sehgal
The West is not producing enough engineers.
~ Azim Premji
Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
~ Hamdi Ulukaya
Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.
~ Elaine Chao
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
~ Sebastian Thrun
If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.
~ Gina Raimondo
A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
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.
~ Rutger Bregman
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications.
~ Eric Yuan
You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.
~ Mitch Kapor
India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.
~ Sundar Pichai
To build a truly diverse economy with a pipeline of skilled labor, technical college in Georgia should be free, and students should be able to graduate debt-free from the public institution of their choice.
~ Stacey Abrams
For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms - have found it easier to continue producing by - with - reducing their workforces.
~ Janet Yellen
Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.
~ Janet Yellen