Nick Hanauer cytaty

Anyone who’s ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalists course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn’t just inaccurate, it’s disingenuous. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Tankersley, The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You, nationaljournal.com, 16 maja 2012 http://roundtable.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/the-inequality-speech-that-ted-wont-show-you.php

We’ve had it backward for the last 30 years. Rich businesspeople like me don’t create jobs. Rather they are a consequence of an ecosystemic feedback loop animated by middle-class consumers, and when they thrive, businesses grow and hire, and owners profit. That’s why taxing the rich to pay for investments that benefit all is a great deal for both the middle class and the rich. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Tankersley, Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality, nationaljournal.com, 16 maja 2012 http://nationaljournal.com/features/restoration-calls/too-hot-for-ted-income-inequality-20120516

The annual earnings of people like me are hundreds, if not thousands, of times greater than those of the median American, but we don’t buy hundreds or thousands of times more stuff. (…) If the typical American family still got today the same share of income they earned in 1980, they would earn about 25%, (…) Where would the economy be if that were the case? (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Tankersley, The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You, nationaljournal.com, 16 maja 2012 http://roundtable.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/the-inequality-speech-that-ted-wont-show-you.php

"Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" TED (conference) August 2014 http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming/transcript?language=en

"Beware fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" TED (conference) August 2014 http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming/transcript?language=en