My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

Someone peeled back the surface of our town, and the whole country saw what was underneath. By Easter 1980 we were creepier than Amityville.

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.