People on the record here who work in business and finance, and what they were asked.
11 people · 286 answers
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.
Economist; Nobel laureate in economic sciences for improvements to auction theory
Recorded · The Nobel Prize · 2020
I have always thought of him as the leader in all of this so … but I take great pride in him because he was my PhD student so I take a lot of pride in having sort of at an early stage…
Economist; Nobel laureate in economic sciences for work on institutions and prosperity
Recorded · The Nobel Prize · 2024
I’m proud of all my heritages, and I’m delighted that I have been able to learn from many different experiences.
Broadcaster and businessman; founder of CNN
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2007
I’m most proud of my family. My five children are all doing quite well, and I’m proudest of them.
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
Recorded · Center for Strategic and International Studies · 2024
I literally said to them - all of our faces were on the - in the boxes on Zoom. And I welled up. And I said, oh my God, this is my dream.
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.
Founder and long-serving chairman of FedEx Corporation
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1998
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…
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
Recorded · Speakola · 2007
wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
Recorded · Center for Strategic and International Studies · 2024
He says: Take your gloves off, Mellody, but use your power for good. He's giving me my hands back. Use your power for good.
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2021
A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2024
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2020
Is there such a thing? I guess, for me, it’s really about life’s special moments, large and small.
Cookery writer and shop owner
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2016
Sundays in Paris with Jeffrey. We go to the Sunday market, make a nice lunch, drink a big bottle of Burgundy, and then take a long delicious nap. Heaven.
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
Recorded · The Giving Pledge · 2010
The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2009
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade…
Bobbi Brown, Bozoma Saint John, Charlie Munger, Derek Sivers, Douglas Stuart, Gino D'Acampo, Julien Macdonald, Katharine Hamnett, Mellody Hobson, Nadiya Hussain, Warren Buffett