NEW YORK -- Sometime in the middle years of the 1990s, Ken Langone, a cofounder of Home Depot Inc. who has since become a legendary figure in U.S. entrepreneurial, business and financial circles, found himself in Philadelphia with some friends when he was introduced to a 16-year-old girl who suffered from Down syndrome. Most people would have quickly dismissed that chance encounter as a momentarily moving diversion from the business of doing business.
But Ken Langone is not most people. Indeed, his unprecedent ed success as a businessman has been built in large part on his compassion--and his personal involvement with the people with whom he does business.
So it was that Langone decided that he would like to help that Down syndrome child …
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