Andrew Young
Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
I had followed the experts and put the money I had in television.
Change of mind
What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?
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Robert Reich
Economist; U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997
When I look back at my role as labor secretary, I regret that I didn't fight harder. I mean, inside the meeting rooms in the old executive office building and the cabinet office, and even when I was talking in private to the president - President Clinton, I did try to argue my case, but I feel, in retrospect, I should have argued even more passionately. Maybe I even should have threatened to resign.
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