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Software makes the world go round.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Software
Round
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I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Billions
Lifetime
Taxes
Billion
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The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Poor
Rich
Support
Primarily
Via
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It seems like people don't learn from the past.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Learn From The Past
Past
People
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Discipline is important for everything in life.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Discipline
Life Important Everything
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Self-discipline is what separates the winners and the losers.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Self Discipline
Losers
Separates
Winners
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Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.
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Computer
Thinking
Traders
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Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Little Bit
Littles
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Slopes
Little
Rules
Bit
Bend
Slope
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I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.
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Unusual
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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.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Advertising
Psyche
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The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Document
Meaning Of
To Live By
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My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
America
Charitable
Educational
School
Teach
University
School Go University
Donations
Efforts
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I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Achievement
Country
Grew
No Hope
Pride
Socialist
Socialist Countries
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Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Jobs
Work
Creating
Interest
Poor
Rich
Socialism
Lose People Will
Working
Rich People Poor
Lose
Working Hard
Yes
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I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Future
Exchanging
Great Future
No Point
Thinking
Love Great Will
Understand
Love Future Great
Less
Point
Something Else
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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.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Undesirable
Crying
Fired
Politically
Regularly
Starve
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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.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Countryside
Relatives
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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.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Appropriate
Bitcoin
Freely
Great Ideas
Traded
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America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
America
Effort
Needy
People
Take Care
Wealth
Efforts
Helps
Incentive
Striving
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Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that it becomes apparent that it does not work.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Attractive
Communism
Details
Socialism
Superficial
Apparent
Observer
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I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Baseball
Basketball
Talking
Device
Extremely
Same Thing
Stood
Trades
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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.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Bitcoin
Trading
Linking
Regulations
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It was a big deal to leave home and my culture and my language. But I believed that in America, I could truly reap what I sowed and that the measure of a man was his ability and determination to succeed. This was the land of boundless opportunity.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Opportunity
Ability
America
Big Deal
Boundless
Determination
Land
Measure Of A Man
Reap
Succeed
Believed
Deal
Leave
Measure
Truly
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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.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Cents
Focus
Simple
Strategy
Well Known
Basic
Public
Create
Dollar
Sell
Product
Service
Value
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