Top 15 Andrew Yang Quotes

Grit, persistence, adaptability, financial literacy, interview skills, human relationships, conversation, communication, managing technology, navigating conflicts, preparing healthy food, physical fitness, resilience, self-regulation, time management, basic psychology and mental health practices, arts, and music — all of these would help students and also make school seem much more relevant. Our fixation on college readiness leads our high school curricula toward purely academic subjects and away from life skills. The purpose of education should be to enable a citizen to live a good, positive, socially productive life independent of work.

The market rewards business leaders for making things more efficient. Efficiency doesn’t love normal people.

The idea that poor people will be irresponsible with their money and squander it seems to be a product of deep-seated biases rather than emblematic of the truth.

Scarcity will not save us. Abundance will.

There’s a big distinction between humans as humans and humans as workers. The former are indispensable. The latter may not be.

In places where jobs disappear, society falls apart. The public sector and civic institutions are poorly equipped to do much about it. When a community truly disintegrates, knitting it back together becomes a herculean, perhaps impossible task. Virtue, trust, and cohesion — the stuff of civilization — are difficult to restore. If anything, it’s striking how public corruption seems to often arrive hand-in-hand with economic hardship.

The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max.

The challenge we must overcome is that humans need work more than work needs us.

The market doesn’t care what’s best for us

There is limited or no market reward at present for keeping families together, upgrading infrastructure, lifelong education, preventative care, or improving democracy.

Intelligence and character aren’t the same things at all. Pretending that they are will lead us to ruin.

Time only flows in one direction, and progress is a good thing as long as its benefits are shared.

College is being dramatically overprescribed and oversold as the answer to all of our job-related economic problems.

One could argue that it is essential for any democracy to do all it can to keep its population free of a mindset of scarcity in order to make better decisions.

The system rewards activity and output over health improvements and outcomes.