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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.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

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.

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.

Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.