Family Control Quotes

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

I'm not allowed to date. My dad said so. Not until I'm, like, 90.

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

Day and night woman must be kept in dependence by the males of their families, and, if they attach themselves to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under one's control. Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in youth, and her sons protect her in old age; a woman is never fit for independence.

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible.

The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

My mom is in charge of my earnings.

It's a multi-billion dollar industry run by our family. That gives us some real unique advantages. We know our sport and our industry better than anybody else. We have the values from the original days. We understand how our stakeholders win and lose in a big way. So I think gives us an advantage to be family controlled, family owned.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.

I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

I always had to mask my emotions. I could never show that I missed my mom or my dad, especially when they moved to America. My grandparents were tough. I was not allowed to receive letters that had not been read before. Everything was controlled - everything!

It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.

I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister controls my Instagram, and my big brother controls my Twitter. I also don't really Google myself or anything like that.

When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

Even though I was 27 when I left, I still was largely treated like a child, because I wasn't married. My parents, my mother specifically, knew where I was and what I was doing at all times.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Sometimes it is a way of controlling others, including family members, because you don't know how to connect to them in any other way. Money can also serve as a scorecard to indicate how well you are doing, the impact you are having, if you are winning.

I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

At home, my children make sure that I fall in line and march to their tune.