John Elkann Quotes

I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.

When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I keep my family involved in all business.

No matter what your family does or where your family is, you always need to look after each other.

If there is something that needs to be done on my behalf back home, for example, my brothers take care of it for me. I share everything with my family; all my happiness and success is theirs.

I think family businesses are still crucial for India's economy, but they need to professionalize. For young entrepreneurs, too, family should play a significant part.

In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I feel like I've got it together when things are going well with my family.

We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

Families are the compass that guide us.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

Two are better than one if two act as one.

Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.