Ken Langone

7 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 3, 2024 by Ken Langone · across every show →

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Jul 3, 2024 negative
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Langone: Receiving $3,600 monthly Social Security checks proves system is flawed
“I have a charming life with everything I could imagine a human being could want. And I get a check from the government every month for 3600 dollars. Something's wrong with that system.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 39:05 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2024 positive
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Langone Evaluates Job Candidates by Observing How They Treat Restaurant Waitstaff
“To this day, Joe, one of the things I love to do if I'm being asked to evaluate somebody for a job at one of the companies, I like to take them to a meal. I love to watch how they interact with a waiter or the busboy.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 9:47 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2024
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Langone: Average stock holding period is 42 years
“My average holding is 42 years.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 2:36 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Langone: Every Harlem Children's Zone Student Has Graduated and Attended College
“And now, every single kid that's going to our school has graduated from our school. Every one of those kids has gone on to college.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 18:48 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Langone: 3,000 Home Depot Cart Pushers Became Multimillionaires
“We have 3000 people That started pushing carts in from the lot. That's about as low entry level as you get. That are multimillionaires today. And by the way. Most of them are still working here.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 12:17 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Langone: Home Depot grew from $2M founding capital to 500k employees
“Bernie, Arthur, and I, and Pat Farah, four of us, with two million dollars in capital, Today we have a half a million associates.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 13:38 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Langone: NYSE Board's Spitzer Defense Totaled $90 Million Covered by Insurance
“My bill was twenty-three million dollars, my legal bill. Rosso's was 27. And all the other directors was 40, ninety million dollars, the insurance.”
Ken Langone Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 27:29 How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
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