The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
All human endeavor, all human civilization, is the act of solving collective action problems. Should we put out our own fires, or should we have a fire department? Should we build roads, or should we hack our way through the woods from one factory to another? Nick Hanauer Read Quote
Diversity is America’s most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It’s simply not true. Nick Hanauer Read Quote
