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I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
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His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1998 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1999
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What I studied at college – A-level economics.
Harlan Coben
American author
I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but if I could go back and fix the mistake, I wouldn’t be here.
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View profile →Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
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