Ken Langone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But same thing.
By far, same thing.
He just took bankruptcy.
You want people who can bounce.
You want people who can come back.
They got to fight.
They got to, hey, okay, that didn't work, but I'm going to give it a shot again.
Home Depot at it.
You realize Home Depot today has a market cap of approximately $400 billion.
$400 billion.
Shit, that's a lot of money.
That I got by virtue of, there was an article in Fortune magazine after the Perot deal, titled the article, The Fastest Richest Texan Ever, by Perot.
And in that article, he was incredibly generous in describing me.
The guy called me up.
from Avon, New York, outside of Rochester.
They were building modular homes in a factory.
I went up to see it.
It blew my mind.
I got so caught up in the moment, what they were doing.
I failed myself to take a step back and talk about the people, but I did.