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
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
The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We’ve got to fix it. – 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
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
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It’s not a lot of money. – Kenneth Langone
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
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
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. – Kenneth Langone
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
My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group. – 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
I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that’s when you start to lose. – 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
A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot. – 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
