Workforce Quotes - Page 2

• Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

  Nigel Crouch

  Business, Mean, Management

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• Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Helping, Lost

  Third Presidential Debate at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.

  Jay Carney

  Powerful, Creativity, Thinking

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 2, 2011.

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• About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Born

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• I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it,
  it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Sex, People, Entering

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• You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Reality, Goal, Culture

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• From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy city? Arguably, no. Companies need healthy cities to provide reliable infrastructure, an educated and vital workforce, a vibrant economy, and a safe and secure environment to survive and thrive. Business executives have a lot to learn from cities, and a lot to contribute, and this book shows the way, chronicling the successes and the lessons learned about what it takes to make a city healthy, in every sense of the word.

  Joel Makower

  Book, Cities, Perspective

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• Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Culture, Fixing, Management

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• We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well

  Thad Cochran

  Senior, Opportunity, Government

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• Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. When a man does a good job, everyone says, 'That's great.' When a woman does that same thing, she'll get feedback that says things like, 'Your results are good, but your peers just don't like you as much' or 'maybe you were a little aggressive.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

  "'Lean In': Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Explains What's Holding Women Back". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Taken, Unique, Play

  "It’s Time to Put More Women in Office" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2009.

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• Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Meaningful, Powerful, Business Success

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.

  Ken Salazar

  Sports, Country, Thinking

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• Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

  Howard Stringer

  Fire, Japan, Paid

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• Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

  Maynard Webb

  Independent, Long, Quality

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• Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

  Bill Shuster

  Country, Jobs, Skills

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• The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours. It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.

  Warren Farrell

  Mother, Children, Caring

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

  Michael Nutter

  Opportunity, Thinking, Cities

  "Philly Mayor Michael Nutter Thinks Local At DNC". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 5, 2012.

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• The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Past, Years, People

  Public power, Volume 48. American Public Power Association, 1990.

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• What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

  Bill Shorten

  Teaching, Games, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.

  Herbert Schiller

  Erode, Forgotten, Economic

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Skills, Growth, Development

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