Hungarian - Businessman | 1944 -
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
Thomas Peterffy
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The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.
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I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.
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My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
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Discipline is important for everything in life.
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I don't think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it's too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents.
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I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.
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What I am objecting to is linking bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by federal regulations to the real economy, which would happen if we were to clear bitcoin along with other products in the same trading house.
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Advertising is so touchy-feely. You have to speak to the psyche of the people. I'm not very good at that.
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The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.
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As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.
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My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we'll starve to death.
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