Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.
The entire American concept of the 'family business' is put at risk by the death tax.
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
Tuff Gong is the name of our father's enterprise, and we're continuing his legacy.
My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.
In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.
I will continue to help run my father's company.
I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.
I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.
