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Kenneth Langone


American
September 16, 1935
Businessman
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I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.


Kenneth Langone
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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.
Kenneth Langone
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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.
Kenneth Langone
Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
Kenneth Langone
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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.
Kenneth Langone
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.
Kenneth Langone
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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.
Kenneth Langone
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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.
Kenneth Langone
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