Hanan Kattan Quotes
My grandfather was an exceptional entrepreneur and philanthropist who moved from Palestine to Jordan and created an amazing group of companies. In a world where women were expected to get married and stay at home, he encouraged me from a very young age to get involved in business and work. He always took me with him on visits and I would spend my holidays at his office, running errands for him and observing what he did each day.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
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I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
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Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
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Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
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My father was a successful entrepreneur.
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Life, especially the life of an early-stage entrepreneur, is full of gigantic ups and downs. Make sure you don't let yourself get too high or too low. It's a marathon, and you just have to keep your legs moving at a steady pace.
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Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they've got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.
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I live my life as an entrepreneur in every possible way I can by applying the question 'What can be done better and how?' at every juncture.
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The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.
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I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.
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We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.
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One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.
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You’re so damn relentless, and you will find the two of us are like two of a kind.
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My grandfather was an exceptional entrepreneur and philanthropist who moved from Palestine to Jordan and created an amazing group of companies. In a world where women were expected to get married and stay at home, he encouraged me from a very young age to get involved in business and work. He always took me with him on visits and I would spend my holidays at his office, running errands for him and observing what he did each day.
