Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

I want to marry and have kids. The things we all want.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

I always knew I wanted to have children of my own. I met my husband Daniel when I was 23; we were married when I was pregnant with my first child, Ossian. We've had our ups and downs like every couple, especially when we were younger.

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.