American - Businessman | September 16, 1935 -
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
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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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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.
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Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
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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'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
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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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We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
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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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People can't live on $7.50 an hour.
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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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I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.
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