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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
Sanford Weill: What turned me on then, and turns me on even today -- and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it -- is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities. So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change. And if you don't like stability, and you do enjoy change, and you look at change as something that creates an opportunity, then I think it's a very, very exciting business.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Tim White: In the University of California at Berkeley, we have perhaps the top undergraduates anywhere in the country, or at least a sample of the top undergraduates. These people come to me, and they have career aspirations, and they often ask the question, "How do I get into this business? What do I do when I'm in graduate school?" They are career-oriented. And what I tell them is to forget about that and go with your passion, and if you don't have a passion for this, then leave it, because you will need a passion. The financial rewards will not be great, the rewards have to come at times of discovery. You have to be excited by being the only human on the planet to see something for the first time, to understand something for the first time. "Develop a passion" is what I tell them, and "Don't go into it unless you are passionate about it." I think that pretty much applies widely to all fields of scientific endeavor.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
What's interesting about the work that I do now is that it covers so many different fields. So I operate on some levels as a geologist, and on some levels as a biologist, and on others as a paleontologist. So I've never really been inclined to like labels. What I'm interested in is learning as much as I can about the past. Even as a child, even as that ten-year-old, I was fascinated on what came before. What was the history of these mountains? Who were the miners and the loggers and the explorers, and who came before them? And of course those were the Native Americans. And who came and what came before the Native Americans? Prehistoric mammals, as represented in the La Brea Tar Pits. I remember going there as a child and seeing these wonderful collections of saber-toothed cats and dire wolves and giant ground sloths. I was just fascinated in that world of the past, and how we might come to learn about it.
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