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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!