Ethan Hawke
Actor, director and novelist
Words like achievement make me want to puke.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What most recently made you cry?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
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Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
I remember the day. It was just such a big day. It happened to be the same day that I got to be on the cover of Forbes. And I remember just being so overwhelmed by the opportunity that we had at hand, that we had closed this $1.45 billion fund - first time - probably in the top five of first-time funds ever that had been closed.
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Kathleen J. McInnis, Smart Women, Smart Power podcast, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 28 August 2024
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Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
Gavin Rossdale
British musician
The fact that I am still making music.
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View profile →I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
As a wonderful husband and a great father, and somebody who inspired others to pursue their own dreams, like Fred Astaire inspired me.
I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
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