Pauline Hanson Quotes

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.

My father was an ironworker who eventually co-founded a construction business. My mother, Jeanette, was a stay-at-home mom who had been an operating-room nurse until my older brother, Jimmy, was born.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

I'm thankful that my daughter's father has allowed me to do what I do because that really makes a difference. I do believe a woman can have it all.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I'm the parent, but I'm the woman, and it's like, 'Ah, what happens now?'

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.

I am a working mom with five daughters, a small-business owner - and a conservative.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

I'm not a single mum, I am just a mum.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.