Ken Langone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, I'll give you a for instance.
He got a call one day from Jim.
We opened up first-hand while in the late 80s.
I walked the store.
He was working at one of our first stores on the island.
Bam, Jim, and it says to him, I said, I've got to come see you today.
Okay.
And I have a rule.
Home Depot employees come first.
Bernie called me.
And it was another call from a kid.
I said, fellas, I'll call you back.
I've got to talk to this kid.
So the kid comes in at the same day.
Hi, Mark, what's up?
He said, well, I wanted to let you know, I thought you should know.
He said, this morning, I got a call from my Merrill Lynch broker that my Home Depot stock is now worth a million dollars.
I'm a millionaire.
And that sounds, you know, everything is something else.
He said, I paid my parents mortgage off before.