Blue Collar Workers Quotes:

The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Jobs, Garden, Blue, Blue Collar, Brokers

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Beat goes on for YouTube's 'Evolution of Dance' star". Interview with Ryan Osborn and Allison Berger, www.today.com. January 12, 2009.

topic: Beautiful, Successful, Thinking, Blue Collar, Collars

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

- Joan Blades

source: "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

topic: Jobs, Kids, Blue, Blue Collar, Collars

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

- George A. Romero

topic: Halloween, Blue, Ideas, Blue Collar, Collars

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

- Sue Grafton

topic: Eye, Blue, Lawyer, Blue Collar, Collars

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

- R. A. Salvatore

topic: Kids, Eye, Class, Blue Collar, Collars

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

- Gerry Cooney

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Growing Up, Winning, Men, Blue Collar, Collars

Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Mean, Ninety Nine, Blue, Collars, Blue Collar Workers

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

- Tom Peters

topic: Technology, Blue, Office, Automation, Blue Collar Workers

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

- Tom Peters

topic: White, Blue, Office, Cubicles, White Collar

Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.

- Duncan Hunter

topic: Jobs, Blue, White, White Collar, Blue Collar Workers

In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.

- Randy Harrison

source: "Randy Harrison's the new Emcee in "Cabaret"". Interview with Tony Bravo, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Blue, Cities, Living In The City, Collars

Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Heart, Gay, Blue, Submerged, Collars

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

- Howard Schultz

source: "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

topic: Jobs, Blue, Injury, Educated And Uneducated, Blue Collar Workers

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

- Kevin O'Leary

topic: Powerful, Home, Blue, Chrysler, Escalators