Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.
The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.
My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Now I've gotten to know more about the industry. And now that I'm over 18, I can work without my parents on set. That was nice and helped me get comfortable.
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