Ken Langone

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889 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 28 Oct

Ken Langone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I'm stupid.

Because I'm stupid.

I'm loyal.

I'm even loyal to my investment positions.

What am I going to tell you?

You know, you're loyal, you're loyal.

Look, I got my Lilly stock two years before Home Depot was founded.

A little medical device company, they bought it.

I got to know the management people.

I liked them.

You know, they were solid Midwestern people.

The guy that I negotiated the deal with was a tough son of a bitch by the name of Gene Stepp.

But I had such aberration to respect the gene.

I had no doubt that Lilly would turn out to be a great company.

Now, it didn't hurt that if I sold the stock, I'd have had a hell of a tax, because my cost basis

The little device company I took over at a proxy fight, had a market cap of a million and a half dollars.

Okay?

Had a market cap, a million and a half dollars.

Lilly gave us $50 million.

That was a proxy fight.

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