Matthew McConaughey · Build or Break · Matthew McConaughey Read 20 Years of Bad Reviews in One Weekend
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Turned down a $14.5 million rom-com offer to pursue more challenging work
$14.5 million
“We did some modelling for clients recently who were pursuing a financial independence goal. We found that if they wanted to achieve their goal without needing to sell down any investments, they could both cease work at age 55.”
“We turned down a quarter of a billion cash offer… because our bankers said we were about to IPO for half a billion.”
“When Ron Johnson was 24, he received a job offer for $120,000 a year. He turned it down… to take a job that paid only $40,000 per year.”
“We need a whole new concept of apprenticeships… to help people do more thinking, more interrogation, more triangulation, more challenge.”
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