Tom Golisano

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

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

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.

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

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.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.