“We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us:...” — Nick Hanauer Quote

“We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?”

“One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.”

“The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.”

“If we wanted something, we had to earn it.”

“Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.”

“I know what I can earn, I know what I can do.”