31 Quotes by Tom Golisano

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

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.

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.

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.

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.

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

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

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.