A biography for Kenneth Langonehasn’t been written yet.
“I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.”
“The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.”
“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.”
“Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.”
“My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.”
“You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.”
“Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.”
“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.”
“You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.”
“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.”
“We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'”
“The economy is a collection of emotions.”
“America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.”
“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.”
“I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.”
“Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.”
“My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.”
“We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.”
“People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.”
“Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.”