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
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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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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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America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.
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As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.
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You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.
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The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
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We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.
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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.