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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I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.
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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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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.
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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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The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
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I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.
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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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The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.
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You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.
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We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
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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.