Katherine Waterston Quotes

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

I always saw myself working for the family 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.

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.

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.

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

I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.

I spent 26 years watching my dad, and I didn't know anything about the business until I started myself.

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.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

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

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

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

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

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.

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.