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Thomas Peterffy Quotes

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Thomas Peterffy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: 1944

Topics

Taxes Lifetime Paid Billion

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

Work Myself Thought Someone First

Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

Best Team You Always Disagree Wins

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.

Stupid Shy Will Genetically Industry

The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.

John James Audubon

Power Vision Great Myself Me Birds

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Failure Women Achievement Effort Way

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Michael Chiklis

Life Best Wife Team Face Everything

Climate change is a global crisis - one the international community and private sector must tackle together if we have any hope of averting the worst impacts on our health, our economies, and our communities.

Change Hope Community Health Crisis

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Job Pressure Worry Career Why Over

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

Michael O'Keefe

Chaos Exercise Like Making

I wish Pat Bowlen and the Broncos' organization nothing but the best in the future.

Future Best Organization Wish I Wish

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

Business Job Fun Having Fun Game

Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.

Family Communication Experience Go

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