Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Nick Hanauer - Page 2

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.