Ken Langone
Investments · Sands Point, New York
Net worth
$11.8B
Today
−$26M−0.22%Past month
+$1.7B+17.30%As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST
In 1978, Ken Langone made an early investment in Home Depot and became a cofounder with Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus (d. 2024), also billionaires. The grandson of Italian immigrants, Langone dug ditches for the Long Island Expressway before he went to Bucknell University to study economics. After two years in the U.S. army, he made a name for himself on Wall Street, taking Ross Perot Sr.'s Electronic Data Systems public in 1968. Langone, who gave $200 million to NYU's hospital a decade ago, pledged $100 million to its School of Medicine in 2018. School is tuition-free. A devout Catholic, he donated $100,000 to the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Net worth over time
Principal holdings
6 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Eli Lilly & Co. NYSE: LLY | Finance & Investments | 51.6% | $6.1B |
Home Depot NYSE: HD | Finance & Investments | 34.2% | $4.0B |
Private and other holdings | Finance & Investments | 13.1% | $1.5B |
Yum! Brands NYSE: YUM | Finance & Investments | 0.9% | $106M |
Unifi Incorporated NYSE: UFI | Finance & Investments | 0.1% | $16M |
TKO Group Holdings NYSE: TKO | Finance & Investments | 0.1% | $9M |
Also known for
- He donated $10 million to NYU's part-time MBA program in 1999 and $200 million to the university's medical center in 2008, which was renamed NYU Langone Health.
- In 2018, he published his memoir "I Love Capitalism!" which quickly became a New York Times Bestseller.
“Bernard Baruch said "I got rich by selling soon." I got rich by never selling.”