Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

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.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.

I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.