366 - Ken Langone: Billionaire Co-Founder of Home Depot

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Ken Langone is a billionaire. He co-founded Home Depot and he’s also been on the boards of some of America's most renowned companies. Ken talked to me about capitalism, (his book is called “I Love Capitalism!: An American Story”), corporate...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:10.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	I'm 82 years old.
0:17.4	I go to work every day.
0:20.4	If I could work 24 hours a day, if I didn't need sleep, I would work 24 hours a day.
0:26.4	If you didn't pay me a nickel, I would work just as hard.
0:30.0	I love what I'm doing.
0:31.2	I'm having a time of my life.
0:33.2	It's going to be hard for your listeners to say this guy's not for a shit.
0:38.6	It should never be about the money.
0:41.2	It should always be about the economy.
0:44.2	Give a business man a challenge with an opportunity to succeed, profit.
0:49.8	It's a horrible word but to make a profit, he'll figure it out.
0:54.2	His capitalism.
0:56.4	We have 400,000 associates at Deepwater Day.
0:59.8	We have 3,000 people working for the company today.
1:02.6	3,000.
1:04.4	We started out pushing carts in from the parking lot at a high school, 80 years old.
1:10.2	And a multi-millionaires capitalism works.
1:13.8	It works and it works well.
1:16.0	You talk so much about how your main successes came from investing in good people.
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