Thomas Peterffy Quotes

#1. 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

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

Thomas Peterffy

#4. Life is a pilgrimage of learning, a voyage of discovery, in which our mistaken views are corrected, our distorted notions adjusted, our shallow opinions deepened and some of our vast ignorances diminished.

John R.W. Stott

#5. I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

Abby Wambach

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

Thomas Peterffy

#7. For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.

Giada De Laurentiis

#8. there is no creature more empathetic toward those who suffer social injustice, more compelled by optimism and faith in humankind, or more aspirational in her beliefs than a middle schooler.

Michelle Icard

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

Thomas Peterffy

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

Thomas Peterffy

#11. 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

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

Thomas Peterffy

#13. I had always held the notion that if two people love the same thing, they must love each other as well, but now the memories of that love had been tarnished by betrayal.

Susan Vreeland

#14. Believe in yourself and believe in magic.

Theophilus London

#15. All beliefs are equally valid.

Alaric Hutchinson

#16. I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.

Lilly Singh

#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. Poor Dick was dead!

Charles Dickens

#20. It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

Oswald Chambers

#21. The whole point of collecting is the thrill of acquisition, which must be maximized, and maintained at all costs.

John Baxter

#22. Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.

John Steinbeck

#23. 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

#24. For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

Gloria Steinem

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

Thomas Peterffy

#27. As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways."
"My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with."
"It's not so bad," Mom says. "You'll learn to control it."
"I'll learn to control my hair?

Cynthia Hand