Kenneth Langone Quotes
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I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.
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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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The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.
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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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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
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A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
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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.
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We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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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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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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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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We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.
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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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I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
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You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.
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The economy is a collection of emotions.
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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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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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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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Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.
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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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A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.