Top 24 Quotes by Tom Golisano

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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