The question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
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Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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Always… as soon as I knew what writers were, I wanted to be one. I’ve got the perfect temperament for a writer; perfectly happy alone in a room, making things up.
Prime minister and brain surgeon.
A drunk woman who threw epic dinner parties.
A Yorkshire cricketer, but I wasn’t good enough.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Angela Hartnett, Mellody Hobson, Tom Kerridge, Yvon Chouinard, Jacqueline Novogratz
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