I Love Capitalism!: An American Story Audiobook (Free)

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

Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a world wide web worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate and business America for decades, he’s a co-founder of Home Depot, a previous director of the New York STOCK MARKET, and a world-class philanthropist (including $200 million for NYU’s Langone Health). Within this about I Love Capitalism!: An American Tale memoir he finally tells the storyplot of his improbable rise and controversial career. It’s also a separate defense of the American Fantasy — of preserving a country where any hungry kid can reach the utmost potential of his / her talents and function ethic.

In some fascinating stories, Langone shows how he struggled to get an education, break into Wall Street, and scramble for an MBA during the night while competing with privileged competitors by day. He stocks how he discovered how to evaluate just what a business will probably be worth and apply his road smarts to 8-physique and 9-number deals . And he’s not really shy about talking about, for the first time, his epic legal and PR struggle with former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer.

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

This book is my love song to capitalism. Capitalism functions! And I’m living evidence — it functions for everybody. Definitely anybody is entitled to desire big, and certainly everybody should wish big. I did so. Show me where the sterling silver spoon was in my own mouth. I’ve got to claim profoundly and passionately: I’m the American Dream.