David Duffield Quotes

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.

My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

I can't just lie in bed and be self-obsessed if there are two children running about who could easily fall down the stairs.

My focus is supporting my family and children and whatever way that comes, in a healthy way, I'm gonna do it.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

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.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.