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All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

~Alex Spanos

Topics: Been Business Family Family Business How Kids Knows Started Successful Very Work Worked Working Young

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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

Topics: Business Case Dad Failed Family Family Business Guess He Him Just Me Named Over Photographer Suppose Take Would

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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

Topics: Business Creative Creativity Dealing Discipline Everyone Family Family Business Found How Ideas Limitation Make Money Needed Rather Sense Sometimes Structure Take Than Work You

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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

~Azim Premji

Topics: Advised Annual Attendance Attended Been Business Company Everyone Family Family Business First Had Me Meetings Over Publicly Resign Should Stood Took Traded Up Years

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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

~Baba Kalyani

Topics: Back Became Being Building Business Career Come Did Education Family Family Business Four Friends General General Manager Had Improve Manager Many Me Months Option Output Productivity Time Used Who Within Worth Worth It

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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.

~Binod Chaudhary

Topics: Building Business Deal Doing Easy Entered Family Family Business Father Generation Had Key People Realised Soon Thought Trust

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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

Topics: Advertisement Business Came Career Chips Did Everything Family Family Business Flow Friends Gave Happened Just Lot Me Movies Nothing Obvious Planned Potato Selling Shot Should Suggested Theatre Then Took Try

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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

Topics: Beer Business Certainly Close Contact Family Family Business Grow Grow Up Social Type Up Very Whatever You

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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

Topics: Business Copper Daughter Family Family Business Fashion Father Having He Him Intellectual Me Mother Strict Thing Very Wanted Who Wire Work Worked Worst Worst Thing

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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

Topics: American American Dream Born Business College Dream Family Family Business Farm First Graduate Lived Our Raised Spent Working Years I Was Born

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