Business Family Quotes

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business. ~ Rick Astley

I work at the graveyard. It's a family business passed down to me. I seem to be the last in line, however. But I don't plan to stop. I forget to stop and just keep going. Work to be done. Always something to do. I've been working here for hundreds of years. Burying more and more. It's a family business. ~ K.C. Green

There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach. ~ Chuck Feeney

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life. ~ Christopher Walken

On the Rebbe's willingness to offer opinions and advice on a large range of issues, including theology, business, family affairs, and even medical questions: "[First] I am not afraid to answer that I don't know. If I know, then I have no right not to answer. When someone comes to you for help and you can help him to the best of your knowledge, and you refuse him this help, you become a cause of his suffering. ~ Joseph Telushkin

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny. ~ Teresita Sy-Coson

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. ~ Rufus Wainwright

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business. ~ Karen Mills

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business. ~ Rebel Wilson

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ~ Bernard Meltzer

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions. ~ Stephen L. Carter

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row. ~ Caitlin Rose

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business. ~ Katharine Isabelle

We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business. ~ Adi Godrej

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business. ~ Rafael Nadal

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business. ~ Will Ferrell

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing. ~ Sally Field

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business. ~ Virginia Aird

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well ... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business. ~ Dhani Harrison

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life. ~ Robin McKinley

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business. ~ Fred DeLuca

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. ~ Carlos Alvarez

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. ~ Andy Gibb

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. ~ Tom Allen

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male ... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business. ~ Jacques Pepin

there's a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I ~ Vivek Shanbhag

In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business. ~ Michael Dirda

Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business. ~ Mindy Grossman

At some point, economists must study the Business Family Wedding Gift Economy. It is an extraordinary, closed bubble. What happens is this: a woman marries into a conservative Indian business family. She may well be energetic and bright, but there's no place for her at work, nor can she work elsewhere. So, instead, she's urged to 'take up something'. Scented candles, usually. Sometimes kurta design. Or necklaces, or faux-Rajasthani coffee tables. She then becomes a 'success', because every other woman in the family buys her candles as wedding presents, at hideously inflated prices. In return, she buys their kurtas as wedding presents. Eventually, everyone is buying everyone else's hideous creations at hideously high prices, and nobody can ever tell anyone else their stuff sucks, and that nobody really likes the smell of lavender anyway. The most amazing thing is, this is not a very different economy from the one their husbands are in. ~ Mihir S. Sharma

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business. ~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug. ~ Gayle King

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off. ~ Pope Francis

It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong. ~ Anne Bronte

Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people. ~ Aishabella Sheikh

The music business is like any other business, y'know? When sales are going well, everything's hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong, it's all blood and law-suits. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals. ~ Seth Klarman

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins. ~ Blackie

The family vacation taught them about about their country, how to be citizens, how to explore the unknown. Family travel was for some a life changing experience that directed them toward a new place to live or towards a life's vocation. Whether you remember the sights you saw or the fights in the back seat, the family vacation is not forgotten. ~ Susan Sessions Rugh

I want you to be happy," I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you," I say. 'You deserve that. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country. ~ Jojo Moyes

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe. ~ Christopher Gist

Some mothers seem to have the capacity and energy to make their children's clothes, bake, give piano lessons, go to Relief Society, teach Sunday School, attend parent-teacher association meetings, and so on. Other mothers look upon such women as models and feel inadequate, depressed, and think they are failures when they make comparisons ... Sisters, do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Rather, each should assess her own situation, her own energy, and her own talents, and then choose the best way to mold her family into a team, a unit that works together and supports each other. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

Crazy things happen to crazy people - You know that crazy person in your life? Friend, family member, in-law, whatever, who always has crazy things happen to him or her? And you're always like 'What? Again? How can this much weird shit happen to this one person? That's why. Don't waste your time trying to figure it out. ~ Judy Greer

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. ~ Bill Gates

I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical'… 'What luck! Here's a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.' A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The world has lost a truly great soul today. Stephen Covey was a man whose 'work was love made visible.' He touched millions of people by the strength of his integrity and the depth of his caring. He was a personal friend, an extraordinary father, and a model for what human beings are truly capable of. Please join us in sending love and prayers to his family. ~ Tony Robbins

My belief is that if you grapple with the big changes until you really get them and if you develop an internal compass to steer your marketing and communications, you will be working in a discipline that is more exciting, more intellectually rich, more delightfully complex and ultimately more rewarding than it has ever been. ~ James Murdoch

Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Republicans always play the same game. They are for big business and money interests...We know from long experience that the people are better served by Democratic public officials, and we are letting the people down when we permit factional fighting to put Republicans in office. ~ Marc Sandalow

When something scary like this happens, it acts like a wake-up call, you know? It makes us reassess what's important in life. Our family. Our friends. The people we love. ~ R.J. Palacio

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself ~ Louis De Bernieres

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done. ~ Mark Cuban

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable. ~ Karen Mills

Be clear when you think about engaging online (or in person) that what you say, type, video, etc. will be in the public court of opinion, and the digital jury is quick to act and not very forgiving. Think ahead to these questions and understand how differences between your personal views may impact who you decide to serve and also when you communicate your personal brand, what the consequences (good or bad) might be for you and your business. The ~ Jen Dalton

I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth. ~ Penn Jillette

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business. ~ William Clay Ford, Sr.

I wish you could simply extirpate violence and war from the world, abolish all the armed forces, and destroy all the bombs. But this is probably not very realistic. Ultimately, everyone has to start with themselves. Many want to be active somewhere else, at best in a country where they don't currently live. But what's the point, if there's no peace in your own life? So be at peace with yourself. And how? Through peaceful dealings with others. Start by ensuring peace at home before you go out into the world. Or work for peace in both spheres. You can't be working for a peace camp in the Middle East during the day and then in the evening have a quarrel with your family over the phone. ~ Jon Gnarr

You don't really know a person until you live with him, travel with him or do business with him ~ Omar Ibn Al Khattab

I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again. ~ Jeremy Irons

What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that. ~ Jillian Medoff

I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage. ~ Bobby Jindal

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear! ~ Bella Thorne

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.
My business is to tear them apart. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible. ~ David Karp

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch. ~ Haskell Wexler

If you make change part of your operation routine and your DNA, and then change becomes easier to deal with, and even become an ongoing core business capability. ~ Pearl Zhu

McMullen came out of Japan racked by nightmares and so nervous that he was barely able to speak cogently. When he told his story to his family, his father accused him of lying and forbade him to speak of the war. Shattered and deeply depressed, McMullen couldn't eat, and his weight plunged back down to ninety pounds. He went to a veterans' hospital, but the doctors simply gave him B12 shots. ~ Laura Hillenbrand