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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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
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My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.
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My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.
If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.
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I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.