Quotes About Doing Business With Family

#1. According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third. - Author: Kit Bond

#2. With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family. - Author: Doc Hastings

#3. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after. - Author: Arnold Palmer

#4. In this sense, a business is far more like a sports team than a family. - Author: Reid Hoffman

#5. For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country. - Author: Mitt Romney

#6. 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. - Author: Caitlin Rose

#7. I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business. - Author: Diana Ross

#8. My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo. - Author: Mark Burnett

#9. Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! - Author: O. Henry

#10. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first. - Author: Kevin J. Donaldson

#11. I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee. - Author: Mark Neumann

#12. My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone. - Author: P.J. Harvey

#13. My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap. - Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

#14. I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong. - Author: Ivana Trump

#15. 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. - Author: Dhani Harrison

#16. I was not very keen on joining the family business ... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality. - Author: Uday Kotak

#17. My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them. - Author: Nell Newman

#18. No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business. - Author: Rebel Wilson

#19. 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. - Author: Rick Astley

#20. I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests. - Author: Alonzo Mourning

#21. God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly. - Author: David Green

#22. My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day. - Author: Denis Leary

#23. You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party ... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other. - Author: Gary Vaynerchuk

#24. My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy. - Author: Blake Lively

#25. I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. - Author: Tyne Daly

#26. I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress. - Author: Patrick Murphy

#27. I kick it when I kick it, but I definitely take care of business. I make sure everything is tight, my finances are tight, my family is tight, my friends are perfect. - Author: Juicy J

#28. The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family. - Author: Clint Eastwood

#29. There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them. - Author: Juice Newton

#30. Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together ... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. - Author: Keira Knightley

#31. It's about "Moments," not Milestones. - Author: Ted Rubin

#32. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii) - Author: Michael Ben Zehabe

#33. When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business. - Author: Binod Chaudhary

#34. In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing. - Author: Octavia E. Butler