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Author Langone, Kenneth G., author.

Title I love capitalism! : an American story / Ken Langone.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY LANGONE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO LANGONE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B LANGONE KENNETH L    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B LANGONE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  381.45 LAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO LANGONE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  381.456 LAN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B LANGONE    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B LANGONE    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG LANGONE, KENNETH    Check Shelf

Description xv, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents I owe Bucknell $300 -- Trains, planes, and combat boots -- Building blocks -- Making waves -- Hubris and redemption -- Chicken salad and lemonade -- Guy walks into my office... -- Human nature and other disasters -- Net worth.
Summary Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone has seen it all on his way from childhood poverty to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. This story of his unlikely rise and controversial career is also a passionate defense of the American Dream -- of preserving a country in which any hungry kid can reach the maximum potential of his or her talents and work ethic. Langone shows how he struggled to get an education, break into Wall Street, and scramble for an MBA at night while competing with privileged competitors by day. He shares how he learned how to evaluate what a business is worth and apply his street smarts to 8-figure and 9-figure deals. And he's not shy about discussing, for the first time, his epic legal and PR battle with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. His ultimate theme is that free enterprise is the key to giving everyone a leg up. As he writes: This book is my love song to capitalism. Capitalism works! And I'm living proof -- it works for everybody. Blacks and whites and browns and everyone in between. Absolutely anybody is entitled to dream big, and absolutely everybody should dream big. I did. Show me where the silver spoon was in my mouth. I've got to argue profoundly and passionately: I'm the American Dream."
Subject Langone, Kenneth G.
Home Depot (Firm)
Home Depot (Firm) (OCoLC)fst00695936
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
Entrepreneurship -- United States.
New business enterprises -- United States.
American Dream.
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship.
Businessmen. (OCoLC)fst00842951
Entrepreneurship. (OCoLC)fst00912787
New business enterprises. (OCoLC)fst01036825
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9780735216242 (hardcover)
073521624X (hardcover)
9780735216259 (electronic publication)
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