family management Quotes

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.

Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

That's how I judge a winner - how somebody manages their family and raises their family.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.

Family planning campaigns should be increased so that the sizes of families are manageable and enjoy the best possible standard of living.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.