Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanauer is an American entrepreneur born in New York City in 1959.
He attended the University of Washington, which formed part of his educational background as he built a career in business. The facts available about his professional life center on his work as an entrepreneur, a role that has defined his public identity over the years.
Hanauer is a United States citizen, and his work and public commentary have been conducted within that context. Beyond his entrepreneurial activities, he has been documented in library authority records under the name "Hanauer, Nick," reflecting a degree of public recognition that extends into archival and bibliographic systems, including entries held by the Library of Congress and the VIAF international authority file.
The record of his life, as captured in the available facts, situates him as an entrepreneur with roots in New York City and an education from the University of Washington — two concrete anchors in what has been a career oriented around business and enterprise.
Quotes by Nick Hanauer
I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left-wing? How did that become 'leftie?' That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.
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.
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.
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.
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.
I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don’t need food stamps – since when is that left wing? How did that become “leftie?” That doesn’t seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.