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Tom Golisano

American

November 14, 1941

Aviator

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

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

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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