"(talking about his children) "I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them."

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Source : "Unlikely Heir Who Saved the Family Jewels". Financial Times, March 06, 2011.

John Elkann

#Children Quotes #Talking Quotes #Two Quotes

“Algeria is not breaking up.”
“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.”
“You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.”
“Iâ€™d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”
“The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”
“If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!”
“You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.”
“My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.”

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