Kenneth Langone People Quotations

Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.

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.

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.

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.

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

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.

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.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.