Peterffy Thomas Quotes

#1. The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less.

Avicenna

#2. 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

#3. I do not like half answers.'
'Stop asking half questions, then,' he said, and smiled with sudden charm.

Katherine Arden

#4. It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Thomas Peterffy

#5. Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Thomas Peterffy

#6. He pulled his lips away and rested his forehead against hers, trying to keep himself from getting another erection. It took great strength of will, but he did it.

Julianne MacLean

#7. I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Thomas Peterffy

#8. The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

Thomas Peterffy

#9. 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

#10. Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

Thomas Peterffy

#11. Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

Barry Diller

#12. Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.

David Berman

#14. Tomorrow is a new day if you begin it today.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

Ai Weiwei

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

Thomas Peterffy

#19. I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Brenda Lee

#20. Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question.

Baseball Prospectus

#21. 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

#22. It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life ... _

Alice Hoffman

#23. Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

Jack Gardner

#24. You win a few, you lose a few.

Thomas Peterffy

#25. Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

Willem Dafoe