American businessman
There were lots of times, especially in the early days, that were very, very difficult.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1997
1980 to 1999
The last two decades before the interview became something a subject could publish themselves.
11 people · 208 answers
What is the biggest obstacle you have faced professionally?
Originally asked
The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews
The Academy of Achievement repeatedly asks honorees to identify a major professional obstacle or challenge and describe confronting it.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
At Cornell, I’d work on preparing my courses, and I’d go over to the library a lot and read through the Arabian Nights and ogle the girls that would go by.
Recorded · Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine · 1985
Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
In terms of this issue of these industrial gases affecting the environment, at the beginning the road was not easy, because we were suggesting that society had to change, that industries…
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1996
What are you most proud of?
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
Vogue's 73 Questions repeatedly asks respondents to select the work, relationship, or achievement that makes them proudest.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the quantum structure of electroweak interactions
It will continue and it is due to something which I am very proud to say I invented. ...
Recorded · The Nobel Prize · 1999
United States Army general; commander of coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War
A man does not get to write his own epitaph. But if I were to write mine it would say the following: He loved his family, and he loved his troops, and they loved him — period.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1992
40th President of the United States, 1981–1989; Governor of California 1967–1975
The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created -- and filled -- 19 million new jobs.
Recorded · Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum · 1989
Lawyer and consumer advocate; author of Unsafe at Any Speed
I think three things. One is the great advances in auto safety.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1991
Physician and inventor; builder of the first practical artificial kidney
No. You see immediately what your next task will be. I’ve been asked all kinds of silly questions, like “Aren’t you proud? Aren’t you this?
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1991
41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
This may sound like a cliché, but I’ll put it this way. The proudest thing in my life is that my children came home.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1995
What is the best advice you have ever received?
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A repeated rapid-fire prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, verified in separate English- and Korean-language episodes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
It was a very simple thing. It was a church camp, I think.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1991
41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I'd have to say, don't neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1995
Singer and songwriter
It goes back to that music teacher when I was 12 years old. After the third lesson, I was singing some popular country song of the day. I forget the name.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1993
Founder and long-serving chairman of FedEx Corporation
When I first met Sergeant Jackson I had grown a mustache and had taken up the affectation of smoking cigars, because I thought this made me look, you know, quite dashing and much older than…
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1998
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