Tom Golisano

Notable Quotes



That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

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From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea.

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It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

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I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

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Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

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There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

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New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

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I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

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What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

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Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

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