John Caudwell Quotes

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

I was always interested in having my own money - not my family's money. I don't think it had anything to do with me being Elvis's granddaughter. None of my drive was, 'I need to get away from my family legacy!'

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

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.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

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?

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

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

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

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.

My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

My father was a successful entrepreneur.