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Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.

~Azim Premji

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My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.

~Azzedine Alaia

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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

~B. B. King

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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

~B. B. King

Topics: Accused Attention Been Best Children Enough Father Frankly Giving Good Handling Life Loner Many Me My Life Never Them Throughout Time Times

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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

~B. D. Wong

Topics: Becoming Before Being Being Myself Days Father Feel Feeling Like More More And More Myself Quite Remember Somehow I Feel I Can

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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: About Any Come Culture Defined Doubts Ever Father Had Mother Mother And Father Parents Punished Strictly Think Very

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When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

~Baba Kalyani

Topics: Business Exports Father Grow Had Institute Massachusetts Patience Returned Running Technology Turnover Via Wanted

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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

~Barack Obama

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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

~Barbara Broccoli

Topics: Always Father Film Full-Time Growing Growing Up Making Middle Operation Preparing Type Up

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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

~Barbara Demick

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