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 Read Quote
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It’s not a lot of money. Kenneth Langone Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don’t do a very good job. Kenneth Langone Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
