Quotes About Skilled Labor

#1. Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Bob Taft

#2. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

Billy Bragg

#4. Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

Laura Matilda Towne

#5. Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Donald Judd

#6. Holy cow!" I said. "You can't go to the door like that!" "My gun's in the kitchen." "Yes, but your underwear's on the floor in my bedroom!" And that wasn't the biggest problem.

Janet Evanovich

#7. While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Vince Lombardi

#8. To be truly wealthy, we must be able to give more than what we receive.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.

Marco Rubio

#10. I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

David Dewhurst

#11. I suspected that the man was ailing, ailing in the spirit in some way, or in his temperament or character, and I shrank from him with the instinct of the healthy.

Hermann Hesse

#12. Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Erica Jong

#13. Beware the viper in your closet.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Jan C. Ting

#15. There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Alexander Cockburn

#16. The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

Martin Filler

#17. He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

Chuck Berry

#18. The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Laurence J. Peter

#19. The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Brian Eno

#20. Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

Corey Taylor

#21. As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.'

David T. Hardy

#22. Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

Pranab Mukherjee

#23. I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.

Halston Sage