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When did you first understand what enough meant for you?

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Andrew Young Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
It was only with her help that I did everything. The tragedy was that after 40 years of marriage she died of cancer.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 1996 source ↗
Terence Tao Mathematician; Fields Medallist, 2006
My parents tell me I was fascinated by numbers even at age two, when I tried teaching other kinds to count using number blocks.
Recorded Oxford University Press Blog, 1 September 2006 source ↗
Ted Turner Broadcaster and businessman; founder of CNN
I lived on a couch in my office for ten years, and then luckily, I got wealthy enough to build a little penthouse on the roof — 700 square feet — and I moved up there.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 20 October 2007 source ↗
Freddie Hubbard Jazz trumpeter and composer
All you have to do is play good enough to get your point across because you're not going to play like - I'm not going to play like I did when you played those earlier records.
Recorded Tony Cox, NPR News & Notes, 1 December 2008 source ↗
Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
So when I leave the court, I'm going to have more than enough to do, just to carry on, maybe telling something of our journey to people who didn't go through that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 2009 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
When I decided to sell my company, I already had enough. I live simply. I don't own a house, a car, or even a TV. The less I own, the happier I am. The lack of stuff gives me the priceless freedom to live anywhere anytime. So I didn't need or even want the money from the sale of the company. I just wanted to make sure I had enough for a simple comfortable life.
Recorded Essay on sive.rs, Derek Sivers, 4 December 2009 source ↗
Wendy Kopp Founder of Teach For America; chief executive of Teach For All
Wendy Kopp: Education needs a systemic change - Mediamax.am
Recorded Mediamax.am, 23 August 2016 source ↗
Yaa Gyasi Novelist
Home can never really be a place. It is this thing that you carry inside of you.
Recorded Kate Kellaway, Neo-Griot, 27 June 2017 source ↗
Abraham Verghese Physician and writer; professor at Stanford University
He says, "Dad, I'm not necessarily looking for that. I just want to make enough money in doing this thing I love to do." I mean, what more could I say about that? So I said, "Go for it.
Recorded Krista Tippett, On Being with Krista Tippett, Stanford University, 4 April 2019 source ↗

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