Quotes About Workforce

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

I'm fascinated by the skills gap.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

Why do we need long-term fixed-rate mortgages in a world where the work force of the future is going to change jobs and move every three to five years?

if you're a capitalist, you don't buy people—you buy their ability to work.

It's all these different capitalists, in far-flung parts of the world—and that's all the more so today: in far-flung parts of the world—it's all these capitalists in competition with each other, forcing each other to find ways to more efficiently produce, and more effectively exploit people, even if that means throwing a bunch of people out of work, or off the land, or whatever.

By 1830, one in six workers in Britain labored in cottons.

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

We treat the management-to-workforce relationship as very important and will continue to invest in that relationship.

We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.

Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.

To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

Farm jobs are not a bargaining chip.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

We deserve a Senator who helps us keep our jobs.

despite the spreading of mass education, cognitive skills now seem to be weakening. Many employers, at least in the United States, experience difficulty finding workers capable of having a serious conversation, with over sixty percent of applicants lacking basic social skills.