Top 33 Kenneth Langone Quotes

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The biggest single challenge to America and our future

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We’ve got to fix it.
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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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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 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 worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
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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 million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It’s not a lot of money.
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We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn’t work.
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I don’t really know and I don’t care what I’m worth.
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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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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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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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Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you’re on top of the world.
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I think I should pay more taxes… but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People can’t live on $7.50 an hour.
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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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A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
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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’m a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.
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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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The economy is a collection of emotions.
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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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You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That’s pretty simple.
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As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers

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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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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