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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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Said Reason Happens Wanted Sex Sound Moral Novel Obvious Ugly Graves Things Happen Statements Acknowledge Attractive Entering Workforce

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“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”

People Wells Helping Government Today Able Opportunity Citizens Benefits Program Obligation Senior Entering Workforce Senior Citizen

Author:Thad Cochran

“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.'”

Men Littles Doe Problem Jobs Faces Used Girl Results Boys Like You Aggressive Peers Good Job Feedback Playgrounds Workforce Bossy

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“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.”

Ends Culture Transformation Management Critical Corporate Invites Cult Fixing Workforce

Author:Lou Gerstner

“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.”

Ends Facts Reality Culture Goal Can Do Conditions Transformation Management Invites Engineers Incentives Marketplace Mandates Workforce Cultural Change

Author:Lou Gerstner

“Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce”

Art Self Kids Community Creative Risk Century Self Esteem Youth Skills Esteem 21st Century Involvement Workforce Improve Self Esteem

Author:Gavin Newsom

“If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.”

People Ifs Jobs Young Opportunity Higher Prepared Climate Workforce Best Business

Author:John Hoeven

“It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.”

Actors Scary Debt Theatre Workforce Scary Things Theatre Actors

Author:Frances McDormand

“Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.”

“It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.”

People Choices Force Leadership Empowering Employee Productive Engagement Workforce

Author:Richard Branson

“Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.”

Want Said Women Command Not Interested Emerging Workforce Command And Control

Author:Irene Rosenfeld

“As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.”

World Nations Ability Economic Innovation Productions Sole Workforce Super Power Economic Success

Author:Leonard Boswell

“We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.”

Country States Home Bigs Care Levels Land Cold Highest Shots Rate Population Access Health Care Healthcare Ownership Participation Workforce Coastal Big Shots Home Ownership

Author:Tim Pawlenty

“A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to improve the health security of Iowans by making healthcare more affordable and accessible.”

Important States Action Grows Security Healthy Essentials Healthcare Marketplace Affordable Workforce

Author:Tom Vilsack

“Our government is pleased to welcome MANA to Ontario, and were thrilled to announce renewed steel production and workers back on the job in Hamilton. Global leaders such as MANA choose to invest in Ontario because of our competitive business environment, skilled workforce and focus on innovation.”

Government Jobs Leader Environment Focus Innovation Workers Productions Welcome Steel Workforce Hamilton Ontario Business Environment

Author:Sandra Pupatello

“The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.”

Hard Ability Position Produce Products Hard Work Ethics Customers Work Ethic Workforce Protestant Work Ethic

Author:Leonard Boswell

“In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them.”

Want Different Black Needed South Population Israel Territory Palestinian South Africa Israeli Apartheid Workforce

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

“Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.”

Important Effort Needed Skills Training Employment Developing Workforce

Author:M. M. Pallam Raju

“A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.”

Mother Ability Inspiring Issues Economic Possibility Critical Workforce

Author:Erna Solberg

“We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.”

Answers Threat Portions No Fear Chill Frost Workforce Diversification

Author:Alan Autry

“Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.”

Firsts Century Majors Discovery Bigger Twenties Size Physics Budgets Biology Output Workforce

Book:Dreams of Earth and Sky

Source: Dreams of Earth and Sky

“Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.”

World Giving Stories Earth Too Much Four Sea Land Style Adventure Ocean Surface Gentleman Dry Labour Maps Covered Captains Pearls Vans Workforce Dry Land

Author:Karel Capek

“Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.”

Men Stills Today Pay Half Equal Deserve Dollars Cents Embarrassment Workforce Equal Pay

Author:Barack Obama

“Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.”

Mean Dream Opportunity Economy Doors Diversity Embrace Opening Strongest American Dream Recognizing Workforce Opening Doors

Author:Thomas Perez

“The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.”

Running Lines Security Bottom Insecurity Bottom Line Workforce

Author:Jared Bernstein

“Title IX is huge for sports but also its helped move our nation to a place where we can accept women in the workforce as well. Its opened up a lot of jobs for women. We had a female run for president in Hillary Clinton.”

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Author:Maya Moore

“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.”

Men Needs Reality Today Half Equal Percent Men And Women Average Gender Myth Buying Gender Equality Workforce Equal Pay Working Man Working Women

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.”

“Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.”

Men Stills Problem Courses Pay Lifetime Significant Gaps Workforce Pay Gap

Author:Steve Israel

“For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.”

Needs Has Beens Community Leader Economy Movement College Training Decades Locals Influential Backbone Workforce Nimble Community College Local Community

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.”

Want Giving Long Term Environment Protect Train Investment Brilliant Long Term Goods Workforce Goods And Services Protect The Environment

Author:Ken Livingstone

“I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.”

Grounded Workforce

Author:Cathy Freeman

“Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.”

Stills Ideas Bigs Easy Selling Britain Labour Bizarre Flexible Workforce

Author:Vince Cable

“Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.”

Economy Successful Priorities Uncommon Backbone Workforce

Author:Mike Easley

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