Yuppies Quotes

“Yuppies were the direct agents and beneficiaries of the plunder of working-class communities.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“After all, locally rich but nationally poor white people—owners of car dealerships and construction companies across the South and Midwest—were among the fiercest populist conservatives.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“In city after city, the glittering prosperity of yuppie neighborhoods was the result of plundering the rest of the United States.33”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“Tom Wolfe, who had just published The Bonfire of the Vanities, his satire of Wall Street in the 1980s. “If you’re young and unscrupulous,” Wolfe said, “there’s always been a place for you in New York.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“It was a selfish age, when men and women were encouraged to look out for themselves. And yuppies were the consummate entrepreneurs of the self.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“The report noted, in particular, the high number of upscale foreign-car owners who had supported his candidacy.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“How a coalition of affluent professionals and liberal technocrats staged a takeover of the Democratic Party in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s is just beginning to be understood.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“The attack on the Central Park jogger forced the yuppies who sat atop New York’s precarious class pyramid to acknowledge that their good fortune was not shared by all. The postindustrial city, like the marathon, had far more losers than winners.104”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“Pairing two highly educated people, these running power couples were part of a wider trend of class consolidation in urban America during the 1980s, as yuppies began to marry other yuppies and eschew pairings further down the class ladder.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“The yuppie gourmet world of the 1980s, it was now clear, had been a harbinger: the first sign of the growing breach between college-educated professionals and the downwardly mobile Americans just struggling to keep up.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“Even a whiff of the middlebrow sent yuppies fleeing.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“What Mao’s Little Red Book was to the American counterculture in the 1960s, the Zagats’ little red book was to New York’s yuppies in the 1980s.77”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“Self-expression for yuppies, however, would come not through artistic production or voluntary poverty—it would be achieved via career advancement and lifestyle consumption.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“the stereotypical narrative generalized the experiences of a handful of white, middle-class men—”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“This book is, in short, the first social history of financialization.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York

“wave of highly educated young professionals that washed over New York in the 1980s as finance, not manufacturing or services, came to generate the greatest share of profits in the US economy.”
― Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York