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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything - that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it's in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.