Kenneth Langone Quotes

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves on the success of our investments.

Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.