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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
Our young people desperately want the chance to participate in and lead our nation's economic and cultural revival. They're up for the challenges that they're going to inherit. It only remains for us to present the path to address them.
Andrew Yang
Challenges
People
Path
Nation
Young
Desperately
Our
Address
Only
Economic
Remains
Lead
Participate
Cultural
Up
Revival
Going
Want
Young People
Them
Us
Inherit
Present
Chance
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
We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.
Andrew Yang
Believe
Market
Bookstore
Fail
Like
How
How Much
Exist
Conditioned
Want
Regardless
Them
Then
Much
Businesses
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
Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.
Andrew Yang
Women
Result
Sometimes
Problems
Men
Free
Kind
Identify
Sort
Course
Women Are
Than
Any
Different
Want
Companies
Company
Start
At Venture for ,we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.
Andrew Yang
Change
Better
Build
Young
Change Things
Hundreds
Entrepreneurs
Venture
Want
Worked
Aspiring
Who
Businesses
Things
Every entrepreneur doesn't need to be technical - there are plenty of opportunities out there for people who aren't coders.
Andrew Yang
People
Entrepreneur
Opportunities
Every
Plenty
Out
Who
Technical
Need
Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I'm obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.
Andrew Yang
Innovation
Key
Progress
Prosperity
Big
Other
Cities
More
Economic
Could
Detroit
Economic Growth
Drivers
Generally
New
Obviously
Venture
Big Believer
New Orleans
Baltimore
America
Use
Communities
Believer
Orleans
Growth
A company can set off in one direction, figures out that it's not the right way to go, and then go in an entirely new direction. Over time, the product or service improves, and the company gets better at executing and delivering.
Andrew Yang
Service
Time
Better
Way
Right Way
Out
Entirely
Direction
Delivering
Over
New
Executing
New Direction
Go
Off
Improves
Gets
Then
Product
Figures
Company
Right
Set
I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.
Andrew Yang
Remember
Looking
Single
Someone
Could
Check
Most
Make
Venture
Up
Any
Happen
Little
Capitalist
Who
Company
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