Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Gerard Langone Sr., KSGis an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist, best known for co-founding The Home Depot. He has an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion according to Forbes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth16 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.
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I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
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Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
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Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.
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America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
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A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
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A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have.
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You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.
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When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.
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We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'