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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Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty.
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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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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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The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.
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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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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.'
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I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.
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A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
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I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
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Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
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We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.
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We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
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The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.