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" I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere. "

Kenneth Langone

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" I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose. "

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" I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks. "

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" We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work. "

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" I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight! "

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" My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have. "

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" Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world. "

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" 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. "

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" America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism. "

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" 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. "

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" People can't live on $7.50 an hour. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it. "

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" We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system. "

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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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" Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance. "

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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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