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Entrepreneurs Say Business Is Good for Personal Lives
BusinessNewsDaily ^ | February 14, 2013 | David Mielach

Posted on 02/23/2013 4:16:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A third of all small business owners in a recent survey say their family life and their relationships have improved as a result of owning their own business.

Small business owners also are more likely to be married than other workers are, researchers found. Sixty percent of the 1,100 small business owners in the poll say they are married, which is 10 percentage points higher than the national average.

Small business owners also place a high emphasis on their personal relationships. Eighty-seven percent say they value their personal relationships at least as much as their business. And 80 percent say they rank their friends and family higher than their business in terms of importance.

While most small business owners highly value their personal relationships, a small percentage say they mix their personal and professional life. Twenty-five percent say they work with their significant others, and 60 percent of those people say they would recommend it to others....

(Excerpt) Read more at businessnewsdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: economy; entrepreneurs; entrepreneurship; marriage

1 posted on 02/23/2013 4:16:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: gorush

Huh? What made you think of a Nazi wedding?


3 posted on 02/23/2013 4:27:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: gorush

Really? That means exactly what?


4 posted on 02/23/2013 4:31:33 PM PST by Valpal1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I tend to agree. My dad was always his own boss, and my mom would do the bookkeeping. The businesses he ran was almost like a hobby to him. Yet as difficult as it got at times, with all the aggravation that goes with running a business our family was better off for it.


5 posted on 02/23/2013 4:38:53 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was a successful, married administrator. How many photos do you get to see of Goebbels’ wedding with best man Adolph in the shot?


6 posted on 02/23/2013 5:08:38 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"How many photos do you get to see of Goebbels’ wedding..."

Not many according to the mods, I guess. I think that is the first time I've had a "comment removed". I'm ashamed it took this long. :{)

7 posted on 02/23/2013 5:11:29 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“A third of all small business owners in a recent survey say their family life and their relationships have improved as a result of owning their own business.”

Which is why private business ownership needs to be criminalized per the socialists. If people get too happy, they won’t depend on the government to give them happiness.


8 posted on 02/23/2013 5:12:38 PM PST by ReformationFan
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