51 Quotes by Kenneth Langone


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    If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.

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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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    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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    Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

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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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    I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.

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    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.

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