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Andrew Yang
American
Public Servant
Born:
May 15
,
1955
Business
People
Time
Work
You
Young
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Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.
Andrew Yang
Moving Forward
Result
Mistakes
Acceptable
Moving
Forward
Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.
Andrew Yang
Courage
Too Late
People
Problem
Vision
Before
Too
Late
Has-Been
Solution
Adopt
Only
Empathy
Obvious
Been
Years
American
Front
American People
Us
Requires
Search
Income
Basic
Universal
As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.
Andrew Yang
Future
Hide
Build
Own
Society
I grew up a skinny Asian kid who was often ignored or picked on. It stuck with me and branded my soul. As I grew up, I tried to stick up for whoever seemed excluded or marginalized.
Andrew Yang
Me
Soul
Kid
Tried
Seemed
My Soul
Stuck
Picked
Excluded
Stick
Up
Branded
Often
Grew
Asian
Ignored
Skinny
Who
Whoever
Marginalized
We need people building companies all over the country to innovate in aviation, consumer products, education, health, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and everything in between.
Andrew Yang
Education
Health
People
Country
Building
Innovate
Everything
Consumer
Between
Over
In-Between
Aviation
Products
Manufacturing
Companies
Biotech
Need
The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.
Andrew Yang
Website
Business
Nothing
Out
Small
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Vast
Vast Majority
Majority
Trying
Going
Owners
Want
Business Owners
Figuring
Keep
Just about any growth company is going to need smart salespeople, account and project managers, business development, marketing, operations, customer service, content creation, communications, analytics, and social media.
Andrew Yang
Service
Business
Smart
Social Media
Creation
Project
Marketing
About
Development
Content
Operations
Salespeople
Account
Managers
Any
Going
Just
Social
Customer
Customer Service
Communications
Company
Media
Growth
Need
Incarceration and recidivism rates high? Providing people an incentive to stay out of jail while also providing them some level of economic security while they get back on their feet - both accomplished by a UBI - sounds like a great way to solve that problem.
Andrew Yang
Great
People
Problem
Recidivism
Back
Way
Out
High
Security
Solve
Stay
Some
Rates
Both
Economic
Economic Security
Feet
Like
Also
Great Way
Sounds
Accomplished
Providing
Get
Jail
While
Them
Incarceration
Incentive
Level
The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.
Andrew Yang
Time
Day
You
People
Value
Market
Way
Structure
Another
Another Way
Goes
Going
Rewards
Them
Less
Monetary
Need
I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.
Andrew Yang
Pride
Relating
Guy
Taken
Underdog
Always
Gal
Little
We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
Andrew Yang
Women
Problems
Drive
Society
Our
Jobs
Solving
More
Economy
Different
Creating
Forward
Companies
Starting
Need
Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.
Andrew Yang
Perseverance
Sometimes
Rap
Bad
About
Bad Rap
Get
Grit
Millennials
Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.
Andrew Yang
Technology
Jobs
More
Most
Than
American
Going
Create
Many
Agree
Eliminate
If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.
Andrew Yang
Grateful
Phone
Three
Long
Other
Type
Typed
Memo
Long List
Days
Always
Still
Up
List
File
Helps
Things
Need
Pull
People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
Andrew Yang
Adversity
People
Prosperity
Much
Grow
Many of the scrappy young people I meet who are the first in their family to go to college feel that they have to bring home a steady paycheck to make their family's sacrifices worthwhile.
Andrew Yang
Home
Family
People
College
First
Young
Meet
Worthwhile
Steady
Sacrifices
Feel
Make
Go
Scrappy
Young People
Paycheck
Who
Many
Bring
Zoning laws making housing more expensive? That's less of a problem with a universal basic income and more of a reason to put money directly into people's hands.
Andrew Yang
People
Problem
Money
Laws
More
Directly
Put
Housing
Making
Hands
Expensive
Less
Reason
Income
Basic
Universal
Zoning
All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society.
Andrew Yang
You
Car
Society
Need
Income taxes are very poor at generating income from automation because the gains are realized by technology companies that are experts at not paying taxes.
Andrew Yang
Technology
Automation
Generating
Because
Very
Experts
Gains
Poor
Taxes
Realized
Paying
Companies
Income
Technology Companies
Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.
Andrew Yang
Girl
Young
Tell
Entrepreneurs
Take
Self-Made
Encourage
Anything
Young Girls
Shot
Your
Billionaires
Including
I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.
Andrew Yang
Time
Experience
Made
Virtually
Several
Spent
Run
Entrepreneurs
Over
Policies
None
Years
Decisions
Them
Personnel
Meaningful
Incentives
Companies
Based
Dozens
Started
When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.
Andrew Yang
Work
Thought
Jobs
Kind
Some
Brown
Had
Conception
Well
Sure
Limited
Very
Graduated
Wanted
Should
Paid
Figured
Basically
Careers
After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.
Andrew Yang
Law
School
Lawyer
Corporate
City
Law School
Brown
New
Became
York
Graduating
New York
New York City
After
I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.
Andrew Yang
Myself
People
Suits
Job
Year
Living
Bonus
Hated
Admire
Wearing
Pretty
Plus
Risk-Taking
Smaller
Likable
Looked
Felt
Becoming
Version
Getting
Manhattan
Apartment
Successful
Working
Paid
Less
Imaginative
Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.
Andrew Yang
Best
Day
Opportunities
Parents
Every
Way
Possible
Parent
Entrepreneurs
Over
Obstacles
Limitations
Climbing
Child
While
Each
Each Day
I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
Andrew Yang
Phone
Try
Too
Tempting
Gym
Play
Bring
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