American - Businessman | September 16, 1935 -
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
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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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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.
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I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.
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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.
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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.
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The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
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A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
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My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.
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I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.
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