Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
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What does love feel like?
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Nadiya Hussain
British television chef, baker and author
When somebody runs you a bath and orders a takeaway after a long day.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Founder and chief executive of Acumen
It is the hardest thing, and inside of it is another secret — we don’t talk about it enough — which is, for anyone who is caretaking someone who’s been sick or who has lost someone, for anyone who’s accompanying someone in a real way, there are times when that love takes every ounce of courage and perseverance that you have in your body, and those are also the times when you like yourself the best.
Akio Toyoda
President of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2009–2023; chairman from 2023
In a word, love. It’s all based on love. Even at the public hearings, there was love for Toyota, and I managed to pull through because there were people who felt it and supported me.
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Henry R. Kravis
Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Finding true love with my wife, Marie-Josée, has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.
Pure happiness.
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