10. All that you experience as the entrepreneur is experienced by your family. They are torn as you are torn.
9. You move from being a dad with authority over your children’s lives to being a father with only influence.
8. Marriage is the hardest of all relationships. Dedicate your life to fixing your spouse, demanding change, or treat your spouse as the person you hoped they would become. You choose.
7. In the child-rearing years, the family grows arithmetically. Once the children leave, the family grows exponentially.
6. High expectations combined with little to no compliments wear people out.
5. Love takes time. Love is an investment.
4. If we wait to give our kids money when we die, they’ll probably be in their sixties, and they will be too old to really enjoy it together.
3. I was so driven, I was compromising time with my own family as well as my employees’ time with their families. Right priorities start at the top.
2. Whatever grandfather I choose to be, that’s the grandfather my grandchildren will have.
1. We are not trying to balance work on one side of the scale and life on the other. It is all one life, and you and your family are together.