More Than Money and Success, Dad Says Family Comes First Real-estate entrepreneur Mike Namer on learning everything about business and life from his father.

When you ask real-estate entrepreneur Mike Namer about his father, and how he was instrumental to his business endeavors, he says it was his dad's example that taught him to be a good person and put his family first.

Namer recalls that his father – an entrepreneur himself who moved his family to the U.S. from Cuba in the early 1960s – always took the family on weekend trips. "That always stays in my heart," says Namer, founder and principal of the Manhattan building company, Alfa Development and owner of HGU NYC.

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"You make money, you lose money, at the end of the day you're alive," he adds. "You have your head, you have your brain and you can re-do it all again. That's basically what entrepreneurship is about."

For Namer's full account of his father's impact, watch the video above.