Quotes About Workforce

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

If you're just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).

Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.

Fewer workers and fewer students mean our businesses struggle to fill the jobs they need to survive, deepening the economic divide from region to region.

He wished, he said, to draw his listeners' attention to "the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government." But labor, the rail-splitter-turned-lawyer declared

The terraced slopes were a marvel of human muscle, a compelling demonstration of what China's giant workforce could accomplish over generations. Even so, many from their region had left farming for trade.

People create jobs, not the government.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

the connection between GDP growth and jobs is a myth.

growth," 60 percent of India's workforce is self-employed, and 90 percent of India's labor force works in the unorganized sector.11

By 1952 there were two million more working wives than there had been at the height of World War II.

This was not just an American phenomenon. A survey of twenty-one industrial countries reported that in the 1970s and 1980s female employment rose twice or even three times as fast as the growth in total employment. In almost every case, married women accounted for the majority of the increase in women's workforce participation.35

So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying to make them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God put them here to do: Everything.

Tim was operating with a very lean staff.

European unemployment has been concentrated among the young,

Within a few years, the entire automobile workforce was unionized—a welcome change for politicians, who could now use those unions to raise funds and pound pavement on their own behalf. Ford was the last company to break, but in 1941, it did.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

The bottom line is that our kids deserve a brighter future. They deserve an opportunity to attend college, regardless of their wealth or class. And our economy needs an educated work force that can compete in the global race for jobs.

We should never seek to compete with economies in our region by cutting pay and conditions - that's a race to the bottom we can't win.

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.