I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
Interpretation
Prioritizing family over business is a choice worth making.
This quote emphasizes the importance of family relationships over professional aspirations. Mitt Romney expresses that he values time spent with his children and grandchildren more than any business opportunity, highlighting the belief that family connections are more fulfilling and important than financial success.
In practice
During a family gathering, I shared this quote to express how my priorities align with spending time with loved ones.
My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of a car company and then governor of a state. I can't imagine I would have ever thought about running for office had I not seen my dad do it.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
I have seen American determination in people like Debbi Sommers. She runs a furniture rental business for conventions in Las Vegas. When 9/11 hit, and again, when the recession tanked the conventions business, she didn't give up, close down, or lay off her people. She taught them not just to rent furniture, but also to manufacture it.
Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.
And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.
I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work.
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with my family or with the gentiles... but there was no foothold in between.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.
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