Ken Langone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And because I had a hard hand, there was nothing I could do that people weren't going to jump on.
Those guys ended up going to jail.
Fortunately, I didn't know anything about it.
They left me.
We looked a deal for them.
1970 was a bad year.
They left me and they went to Merrill Lynch.
It's all about reputations.
Always is and always will be.
Nothing matters to me more than I was a member to keep my word.
We're number one in America.
We got a culture that won't stop.
We're heading on all cylinders.
We got three and a half billion dollars cash in the bank.
The greatest thing of all, we took over a rundown, broken down hospital in Brooklyn called Lutheran Hospital.
The zip code has the highest percentage of welfare patients in the United States.
It's the poorest zip code in the country.
We don't make a nickel on that hospital, but that hospital on its own was now right, number one.
We have three hospitals, Long Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.
We put all those three in separately.