Olav Thon Quotes

I will continue to help run my father's company.

I would consider selling the whole company; I wouldn't like to sell just part of it, but on the other hand, I have a grandson intent on following my footsteps and another grandson in another couple of years.

My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, and when Dad died, my mom took it over.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

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.

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

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.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.

The entire American concept of the 'family business' is put at risk by the death tax.

I want Edelman to remain a family business.

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

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

Many small business owners want to pass their family legacy on to their kids and grandkids, but they are turned over to vulture funds because the family may be asset rich but lacks the cash to pay the estate taxes. I have met people who literally sold the farm to pay the taxes.

My daughters will succeed me as owners of the firm.

I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

I always saw myself working for the family business.

On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really is the pass-through business, and it's the farmers.

My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

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

I want to have generational money.

I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I'm most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.