Tom Golisano Quotes

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

I am not a bookkeeper!

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

When you think about accountants, who would want to be an accountant? But, what would we do without accountants? Whether it's soldiers or garbage men or doctors, everyone has the thing that they love.

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing with new employee onboarding, offer letters, and managing that - and we do it for free.

The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.

I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.

There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.

I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA.