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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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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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 had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
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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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When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.
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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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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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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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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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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.