Kenneth Langone Quotes

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

That's the principle I teach - find your passion in life and figure out a way to make money.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

The only person who would employ me without a degree was myself.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job at a start-up. I was one of the first employees there, and I did everything for them, and it was so much fun.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

I believe your career is one of the few things that stay with you forever. It also gives you the confidence to lead a happy life.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.

The truth was that I didn't want a career in the conventional business world.

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.