Kenneth Langone Quotes
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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 have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
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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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America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.
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A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
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I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
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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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People can't live on $7.50 an hour.
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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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America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
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I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
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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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We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.
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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.
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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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I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.
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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.
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I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.
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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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You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.
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Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
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Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.
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Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
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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.