Stephanie McMahon Quotes

From the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to work in the family business.

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

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

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.

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

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.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

I didn't think the family business would be big enough to have an opportunity for me.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

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. But I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child.

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

I think there's an assumption when you have a parent in the business that you're given some kind of a cheat sheet at an early age. Some kind of upper hand or some kind of advanced understanding of how the whole thing functions - maybe how to operate within it. I never felt I received that cheat sheet and grew up pretty removed from the business.

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one mentor that was super successful.

I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'

My father built a small business from scratch with years and years of sweat equity and many, many weeks away from home. He employed about 50 people, and by the end of his working years, the business was highly successful. He became a millionaire.