Through rose-tinted spectacles.
What would you like to be remembered for?
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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?
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What is your worst intellectual habit?
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What are you most proud of?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In 50 years, I hope to be remembered not just as an industrialist but as someone who believed in the potential of people and worked to leave the world better than he found it.
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As someone who gave it a go.
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As an optimist.
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If I am remembered at all that would be nice. I won’t be picky.
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I also developed an unhelpful aversion to asking for favors. Frankly, if I had sought help from others, I would have made far fewer mistakes.
I’m very proud of that and I started a drug and substance abuse program in middle schools in New York to help the worst performing schools.
I have always been impatient.
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But nothing lasts forever and that's not how you lay the bricks of a building with a strong foundation.
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