If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

- Tom Golisano

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.

- Tom Golisano

The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.

- Tom Golisano

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.

- Tom Golisano

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.

- Tom Golisano

I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.

- Tom Golisano

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

- Tom Golisano

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

- Tom Golisano

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

- Tom Golisano

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

- Tom Golisano

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

- Tom Golisano

In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.

- Tom Golisano

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

- Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

- Tom Golisano

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

- Tom Golisano

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

- Tom Golisano

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

- Tom Golisano

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

- Tom Golisano

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.

- Tom Golisano

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

- Tom Golisano