Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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
Kenneth Langone

A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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
Kenneth Langone

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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
Kenneth Langone

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
Kenneth Langone

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

Kenneth Langone
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
Kenneth Langone

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

The economy is a collection of emotions.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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
Kenneth Langone

Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

Kenneth Langone
Kenneth Langone

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.