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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
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.
My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
My father was a successful entrepreneur.
In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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.
My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.