New York Moments Bestseller

Iconoclastic entrepreneur and NY legend Ken Langone tells the convincing story of how a poor boy from Long Island became among America’s most successful businessmen.

Ken Langone provides seen everything on his way to a online worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate and business America for many years, he’s a co-founder of House Depot, a former director of the brand new York STOCK MARKET, and a world-class philanthropist (including $200 million for NYU’s Langone Health). With this about I Love Capitalism!: An American Story memoir he finally tells the story of his unlikely rise and controversial career. It’s also a separate defense of the American Dream — of protecting a country where any hungry child can reach the maximum potential of his or her talents and function ethic.

In some fascinating stories, Langone displays how he struggled to get an education, break right into Wall Street, and scramble for an MBA at night while competing with privileged competitors by day. He stocks how he learned how to assess just what a business will probably be worth and apply his street smarts to 8-number and 9-physique offers . And he’s not shy about discussing, for the first time, his epic legal and PR struggle with previous NY Governor Eliot Spitzer.

His best theme is that free business may be the key to providing everyone a leg up. As he writes:

This book is my love song to capitalism. Capitalism works! And I’m living evidence — it works for everybody. Absolutely anybody is eligible for fantasy big, and totally everybody should desire big. I did. Show me where the silver spoon was in my mouth. I’ve surely got to argue profoundly and passionately: I’m the American Desire.