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I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. -- Tyne Daly
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business. -- Nastia Liukin
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
My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him. -- Ansel Elgort
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. -- Uday Kotak
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. -- Mark Burnett
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
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business. -- Danny Huston
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. -- David Einhorn
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school. -- Sendhil Ramamurthy
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. -- PJ Harvey
I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful. -- Karen Mills
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. -- Jordan Bridges
I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years. -- Hamdi Ulukaya
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man. -- Diego Della Valle
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. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be. -- Ashwin Sanghi
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion. -- Carmen Busquets
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
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
Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. -- Boman Irani
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. But I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. -- Jordan Bridges
I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight. -- Kate Middleton
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
Earth is a family business. -- Robert Mandel
Never put business before family, -- Walt Disney
Saving people, hunting things, the family business. -- Dean Winchester
I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business. -- Charlie Crist
I came from a real working-class show business family. -- Sally Field
But this is called show business, not show family. -- Alice Barrett
A man should never neglect his family for business. -- Walt Disney
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions. -- Stephen L. Carter
It's something that's really fun to do. It's a family business. -- Ron White
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. -- William Standish Knowles
My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy. -- Blake Lively
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family. -- Barbara Corcoran
This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
If you can raise a family, then you can build a business. -- Michael Port
I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life. -- Sanjay Rawal
I'm really happy to have a family and a life outside of the business. -- Patrick Dempsey
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business. -- Wanda Sykes
A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections. -- Greta Van Susteren
Treat people you do business with as if they were a part of your family. -- Konosuke Matsushita
The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii) -- Michael Ben Zehabe
Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade. -- Anne Robinson
I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business. -- Rafael Nadal
Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself. -- Bob Cox
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. -- Lawrence Welk
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. -- Tony Abbott
I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist. -- Aya Cash
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them. -- Gloria Gaynor
my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times. -- Carly Fiorina
I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game. -- Ernie Els
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist. -- Dick Bruna
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history. -- Rachel Bilson
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. -- Norman Lear
Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family. -- Paul McCartney
Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex. -- Ivanka Trump
I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong. -- Ivana Trump
There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach. -- Chuck Feeney
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it. -- Jerry Reinsdorf
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! -- O. Henry
Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments . -- Jim Rohn
Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home. -- Doc Hastings
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly. -- David Green
It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business. -- Styles P
I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family. -- Rob Brown
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel. -- Elvis Costello
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
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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 wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business. -- Tom Bosley
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. -- Mark Neumann
If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business. -- Shane Claiborne
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 did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. -- J. C. Chandor
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life. -- Glen Taylor
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. -- Andy Gibb
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. -- Erica Jong
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
I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother. -- Celine Dion
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. -- Uday Kotak
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground. -- Zach Roerig
In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much. -- Psy
I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. -- Matt Groening
When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport. -- William J. Clinton
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. -- Clint Eastwood
Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom. -- Beverly Johnson
True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family. -- Joseph C. Kunz Jr.
My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again. -- Ana Ortiz
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. -- John Wooden
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful. -- John Wooden
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on. -- Michael Sheen
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic. -- Sofia Coppola
I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do. -- Blake Lively
If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business. -- Zicheng Hong
I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business. -- Kathy Ireland
I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends. -- Clive Owen
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded. -- Henry Ford
But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. -- Frank Bidart
I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business. -- Kathy Ireland
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
I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced. -- Helen Keller
Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around. -- David Brooks
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. -- Kit Bond
I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary. -- Gary Sheffield
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life. -- Adam Carolla
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
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
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. -- Nell Newman
It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone. -- Ally Carter
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I. -- Steven Sinofsky
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. -- PJ Harvey

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