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
pay reduce
I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
federal government man means success
I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
count learned playing
I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.
created invested worked
I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.
I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.
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.
certainly consider supporter work
I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
hired home human minimum paid premium
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
certain public strand
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.
america thrived
America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
dollars election million money spit
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.