Time & hindsight

What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 14 Arts and letters 11 Politics and public life 18 Business and finance 10 Technology 15 Sport 9
Read by age Any age Before thirty 3 In their thirties 9 In their forties 13 In their fifties 12 In their sixties 13 Seventy and beyond 19
Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
When I went through school, I was in a hurry. I was an economics major as an undergraduate, and I was a finance major in graduate school. I was in a hurry to succeed when I got out in the business world. I’m sorry I didn’t take more courses in the humanities and in history and in the arts.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 12 February 1991 source ↗

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