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Kenneth Langone
American
Businessman
Born:
Sep 16
,
1935
America
Job
Me
Pay
People
You
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You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.
Kenneth Langone
You
Law
Simple
Worry
Pretty
About
Only
Going
Jail
Break
The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.
Kenneth Langone
Future
Challenge
Single
Our
Inequality
Got
Fix
America
Biggest
Income
Income Inequality
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.
Kenneth Langone
Time
Great
Winner
Country
Enormous
Back
Our
Great Country
Out
Had
Powerful
Come
Wall
America
Any
Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.
Kenneth Langone
Buy
You
World
Top
Feel
Like
Go
Stock
Two
The economy is a collection of emotions.
Kenneth Langone
Emotions
Collection
Economy
I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
Kenneth Langone
Work
Myself
Own
Think
Consider
Significant
My Own
Supporter
Generous
Am
Any
Candidate
Certainly
Funds
I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.
Kenneth Langone
Politician
Once
One Thing
Never
Gotten
Any
Anything
Helped
Ever
Thing
Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
Kenneth Langone
Presidency
Would
Never
He
Oval
Oval Office
Without
How
Reagan
How Much
Revered
Go
His
Office
Jacket
Ronald Reagan
Much
People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
Kenneth Langone
People
Year
Pay
More
Making
Going
Different
Anything
Taxes
Million
I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
Kenneth Langone
Me
Pay
Think
Everything
More
Take
Reduce
Go
Debt
Taxes
Should
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.
Kenneth Langone
Legal
Seeking
Something
Lawsuit
Only
New
Name
Precedent
York
Jury
New York
Stopping
Happening
Damages
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
Me
History
Director
Legal
Made
State
General
More
Exchange
Over
New
Attorney
Attorney General
Perhaps
Stewardship
Were
Stock
Stock Exchange
Than
York
Expenses
New York
Which
Litigation
Sued
Million
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
You
People
Liberty
Country
Assume
Immigrants
Neither
Seeking
Economic
Advantages
Know
Most
Am
Came
Contrary
Did
Personal
Any
Personal Liberty
Might
Successful
Successful People
Grandson
Who
Basic
Start
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.
Kenneth Langone
Construction
Job
Long
First
Jobs
Supermarket
Variety
Long Island
Delivering
Had
First Job
Island
Boy
Dug
Shop
Different
Little
Newspapers
Then
Worked
Butcher
America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
Kenneth Langone
Capitalism
Will
Thrive
America
Again
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.
Kenneth Langone
Success
Great
You
Technology
People
Bad People
Way
Out
Bad
Great People
Buck
Make
Gonna
Much
Figure
Phenomenal
Mediocre
Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
Kenneth Langone
People
Country
Rich
One Country
Another
Same
Rich People
Act
I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
Kenneth Langone
You
Lose
Count
Never
Poker
Learned
Because
Your
Start
Playing
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.
Kenneth Langone
You
Business
Political
Accountability
Prominent
Out
General
Lawsuit
Count
New
Attorney
Attorney General
Lots
Office
Person
York
New York
Against
Little
Business Person
Things
Brings
Two
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.
Kenneth Langone
Life
Love
Good
Me
People
Wonderful
My Life
Honorable
Has-Been
Know
Were
Been
Wall
Wall Street
Decent
Ethical
Many
Hard-Working
Street
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.
Kenneth Langone
Eyes
Financial
Nothing
Virtually
Press
Charges
General
Higher
Generally
Attorneys
Executives
Coverage
Fixed
Office
Conferences
Accusation
Substance
Whether
Against
Public
Successful
Public Office
Media
Media Coverage
Guaranteed
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
Kenneth Langone
Would
Would-Be
City
Superb
He
New
York
New York
Mayor
Loves
My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.
Kenneth Langone
Nation
Group
Ourselves
Never
Put
Pit
Where
Want
Against
Connection
Position
We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
Kenneth Langone
Work
Before
Percent
Had
America
Taxes
Right
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.
Kenneth Langone
You
Technology
Better
School
Challenge
Those
Kids
Out
High
Kinds
High School
Give
Part
Inequality
Educated
Close
Move
Want
Succeed
Us
Gap
Income
Income Inequality
Watch
Needle
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
Kenneth Langone
Money
Election
Ocean
Presidential
Presidential Election
Spit
Dollars
Lot
Million
Million Dollars
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