Unskilled Quotations

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor

I get pretty angry that a man in his position can make statements like this. It's sad. We're dealing with a good soccer player, but a very unskilled leader and careless man.

Overcrowded, multilingual, schools will not become manageable because the kids are suddenly the children of guest workers, instead of illegal aliens. Millions of unskilled laborers will not magically become high-earning taxpayers because they have work visas. State budget crises will not be alleviated, housing will not become more affordable, traffic will not become less congested, and middle class jobs will not become more plentiful if we give everyone who is here, or who wants to come here, a piece of paper that says they're legal.

Most are working-aged men seeking unskilled employment. I didn't think it's common to see people who have criminal histories.

You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

We need to guard against the situation where big companies, local or international, can corner the market, which can in turn lead to price-fixing and bid-rigging. There is concern within the work force and government that the fruits of economic recovery are not filtering down to unskilled workers.

There is no reason to flood the labor market with more unskilled workers when we have a more than ample supply in this country.

Those unskilled recovery and cleanup jobs will go away in a month or two. And more people will move back, pushing up the supply of workers.

There's no question that illegal immigration, that unskilled immigration of all kinds, is a losing proposition.

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

It looks good on the surface, but it is going to hurt people trying to get their first job and hurt the unskilled workers that can least afford to get hurt. It will price them out of the job market and put them on welfare and then it will cost all of us.

These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Immigration must be halted in the short-term so that our dole queues are not added to by, in many cases, unskilled migrants not fluent in the English language.

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

I'm building the roads you guys drive on, I'm building the buildings. There ain't a thing that we do that is unskilled ... All I ask is try to give us a fair shake.

You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.

The manager could have made a large sector bet that flopped; he may have made a large commitment to the fund's top 10 holdings, which then underperformed; or the fund may simply have an unskilled manager, someone who can't pick well.

The overseer of the unskilled peasants who dragged stone for the pyramids did not concern himself with morale or motivation,