Andrew Yang Quotes

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

I don’t trust a private entity to do a public chore.

It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.

Common carriers exercise a sort of public office, and have duties to perform in which the public is interested.... Their business is, therefore, affected with a public interest

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

As with anything we do as entrepreneurs, researching how our businesses impact and influence our customers and our markets - and our world - is critical to building something of value as a business.

I am drawn to public service.

I grew up to believe in public service. It is in the core of who I am.

If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.