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Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
I went down and knocked on a bunch of doors and, finally, a small station, WAHR in Miami Beach, right opposite the police station. I stayed with my uncle. My aunt had died (my mother's sister), and he had a little apartment. I slept on the couch. I made the rounds, and I couldn't get in the door. But this small station -- a guy named Marshall Simmonds was the general manager -- gave me a mike test and it was the first time I'd ever spoken into a microphone, or been taped.
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Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
In the early '70s I lost all the jobs I had. There was a guy named Louis Wolfson, was a financier and he got in trouble with the law and he was sentenced to jail and tried to get out, and I was supposed to try to set up a meeting with him with Nixon and I never did it. And all this broke in the newspapers, and I lost my job, and he went to jail, and the district attorney lost his job. And it was like a two-year story, and I was off the air for three years, and then eventually I got back. But that come-down -- and I didn't handle money well, and I was in debt all the time -- that come down taught me. The day I went back on the air, I told myself, "I will never, ever goof again." I'll never get myself in the kind of situation where I could owe people money, or scared of when the phone rings, and stuff like that.
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Willem Kolff
Pioneer of Artificial Organs
Willem Kolff: When the artificial kidney had become in my eyes a reality that did not mean that the medical profession was going to say, "Hurrah! Now we have something!" And, there were some that were receptive, there were many more that thought that the idea to have blood outside somebody's body was a horrible idea, and they did whatever they could to prevent using the artificial kidney and some of them wrote articles that said the artificial kidney was not needed. I've done one very good thing. I have never responded to any of those articles, for the simple reason that I had seen the improvement in patients so clearly that if I could just keep going, and have a few other people do it too, I would win.
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Henry Kravis
Financier and Investor
I started at Columbia and, after my first semester, I said, "Oh, I don't know if this is really for me." I remember being in a class, a marketing class, my first year, first semester. And the professor said, "How many of you want to work for Procter and Gamble?" And everybody's hands went up. And I said, "Oh, my gosh, this is not for me. I've got to get out of here. I'm in the wrong place." I called my dad, and I said, "I'm going to drop out, and I'm going to go back to work for the Madison Fund." He said, "No, you're making a mistake, son." He says, "I think you've gotten the worst over. The first semester is always the hardest at business school. Stick with it. It will always be good to have your Master's." And long story short, I did stick with it.
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