Uday Kotak Quotes

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

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.

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.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I always saw myself working for the family business.

I think, a lot of times, that's why groups break-up, because people lose their individuality.

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

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

I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.