People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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.
I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.
Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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.
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