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October 3rd, 2013 
Peter Nolan
“I was proud of my parents and grateful for the work that they did, but I
was living my own life,” she said.
“I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
There was one metric for success: Did you make or lose money? I think we
need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I’m a pretty
competitive person.
“But whether I made the company $2 or $2 million just didn’t matter to
me. I didn’t fundamentally care about making money.”
Miss Clinton said that Dorothy, her late grandmother, who sparked her decision
to leave the financial world.
“She had strong ideas about what I should do with the opportunities I had
been given. I realised that as much as I tried not to care about the things
my parents cared about, I did care about them,” she said. “Which
was frustrating, in some ways. My grandmother, in her wizened way, just
said, ‘Yes, I’ve been waiting for you to come to this realisation.'”
Miss Clinton was speaking to the magazine in Rwanda, during a four-nation tour
of sub-Saharan Africa with her father.
She is expected to play an increasingly high profile role in both the family’s
foundation, which works in the developing world on issues such as health
care, women’s’ rights and climate change.
She is also expected to play an important role in Hillary Clinton’s 2016
presidential campaign – if she decides to run.
“I’ll support my mother in whatever she does. Always,” said Miss
Clinton, when asked of her mother’s possible White House ambitions.
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