On Bill Gross: “At Pimco he would ask potential hires what they would choose if they could only have one thing: money, power or fame. “I knew for me it was to be famous,” he says.”. What’s your answer

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^Associate 1 - not necessarily true. Eg R Kelly is pretty famous but has no power and is worth about $1m at this point.

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Fuck R Kelly

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Money - no question. Money buys freedom and influence, thus power. You lose freedom with fame.

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Best answer so far.

Money- if you get enough of it, you will automatically become famous and powerful!

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Assumes you can’t have the other two

Money

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Power of course. To be able to make better changes

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Power

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Power

Fame 🤩🤩🤩

Same for any one of the three. If you have enough of one, the other two will follow.

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money. i would pay to *not* have fame

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