A boat was docked in a tiny Newfoundland fishing village. A tourist from Toronto complimented the Newfie fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. ‘Not very long,’ answered the Newfie.
‘But then, why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?’ asked the Torontonian.
The Newfie explained [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Family Business'
The Newfoundland Fisherman
December 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Careers · Entrepreneurship · Family · Family Business · Humour · Toronto
Outlook training at First Stage Inc. September 7, 2006
September 7th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Entrepreneurship · Family Business · Friends · Toronto · Volunteering · Youth
Camerini Restaurant Family Business
February 18th, 2006 · No Comments
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Family Business Stories & Quotations
June 24th, 2003 · No Comments
They look upon retirement as something between euthanasia and castration.
Leon A Danco, President, Center for Family Business
ATTRIBUTION: On company founders who view “giving up” as tantamount to planning their own funerals, NY Times 11 Jun 86
Successors can’t learn from their mistakes if they’re never allowed to make any.
Leon A Danco, President, Center for Family Business
Tags: Family Business · Favourite Quotations
A brief history of my own two family businesses, and my experience in a third!
January 1st, 2003 · No Comments
Founding of the family business
My maternal grandfather started a lumber brokerage in Montreal after WW1. He named it after himself: E. M. Ball Limited. Working from a downtown Montreal office he represented saw mills, accumulating orders to fill rail cars, and then coordinating pickup or delivery from a local rail siding. Eastern White Pine was [...]
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