Don’t call former Starbucks honcho Howard Schultz and his ilk billionaires.

He’d prefer “people of means.”

“The moniker ‘billionaire’ now has become the catchphrase,” Schultz told CNBC during an interview last month. “I would rephrase that and say that ‘people of means’ have been able to leverage their wealth and their interest in ways that are unfair.”

CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Schultz, who’s considering running for president in 2020 as an independent, if billionaires have amassed too much power in America.

“And I think that speaks to the inequality but it also directly speaks to the special interests that are paid for people of wealth and corporations who are looking for influence and they have such unbelievable influence on the politicians who are steeped in the ideology of both parties,” Howard — who’s worth $3.4 billion, according to Forbes — continued.

He emphasized that if he did mount a White House run, he is “not in bed” with any party or special interest group and is just trying “to walk in the shoes of the American people.”

Ross raised the question citing proposals to levy taxes on the wealthy by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the premise of a new book by Anand Giridharadas, “Winners Take All.”

Giridharadas tweeted out the CNBC clip Monday evening.