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
oval reagan revered
Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
country people
Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
against ourselves pit position
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.
I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.
hard
I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
pay reduce
I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.
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.