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Career Advices

From 25 most successful people

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Warren Buffett

• Exercise humility and restraint.• the key to making friends and getting along

with coworkers is learning to change your behavior as you mature by emulating those you admire and adopting the qualities they possess.

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Maya Angelou

• Make your own path.• ‘If the world puts you on a road you do not like, if

you look ahead and do not want that destination which is being offered and you look behind and you do not want to return to you place of departure, step off the road. Build yourself a new path.’

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Richard Branson

• Never look back in regret — move on to the next thing.

• “I have fun running ALL (the Virgin) businesses — so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.”

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J.K. Rowling

• Embrace failure.• she considered her early failure a “gift” that

was “painfully won,” since she gained valuable knowledge about herself and her relationships through the adversity.

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Eric Schmidt

• Say yes to more things.• Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations

to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids.”

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Marissa Mayer

• Pick something and make it great.• ‘You know, (Marissa), you’re putting a lot of

pressure on yourself to pick the right choice, and I’ve gotta be honest: That’s not what I see here. I see a bunch of good choices, and there’s the one that you pick and make great.’ I think that’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.

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Steve Jobs

• Don’t just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.

• you’ve got to put something back into the flow of history that’s going to help your community, help other people … so that 20, 30, 40 years from now … people will say, this person didn’t just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from.

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Suze Orman

• With success comes unhelpful criticism — ignore it.

• “A wise teacher from India shared this insight: The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking,” she wrote.

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Bill Gates

• Keep things simple.• admired Warren Buffett’s ability to keep things

simple.

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Arianna Huffington

• Don’t work too hard.• “(Arianna), your performance will actually

improve if you can commit to not only working hard but also unplugging, recharging, and renewing yourself.”

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Stewart Butterfield

• Have an ‘experimental attitude.’• “Some people will know exactly what they

want to do at a very young age, but the odds are low,” he said. “I feel like people in their early- to mid-20s are very earnest. They’re very serious, and they want to feel like they’ve accomplished a lot at a very young age rather than just trying to figure stuff out. So I try to push them toward a more experimental attitude.”

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George Stephanopoulos

• Relax.• “Almost nothing you’re worried about today

will define your tomorrow,” “Down the road, don’t be afraid to take a pay cut to follow your passion.”

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Marla Malcolm Beck

• Remember that you won’t end up where you start.

• “nobody ends up in the first job they choose out of college, so just find something that is interesting to you, because you tend to excel at things you’re interested in. But just go do it. You have nothing to lose.”

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T.J. Miller

• Work harder than anyone else around you.• “It worked for me, and I have mediocre talent

and a horse jaw.”

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Alexa von Tobel

• Get up, dress up, and show up.• it’s important to wake up excited for what’s

coming, dress the part, and always show up ready to go.

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Mark Bartels

• Map out a timeline for yourself when you start a new job.

• “We talk about budgets; we talk about planning your finances; but what a lot of people don’t do is plan out the next 12 to 18 or 24 months of their careers”

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Hermione Way

• Start your own business.• “There has never been an easier time to start

a business,” “There are so many free online tools. Just start, and if you fail you can always go and get a normal job, but you will learn so much along the way it will be a great experience.”

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John Chen

• Being a ‘superstar’ can hurt your career.• “Most employees think that the best way to show value

to their boss and get promoted is to aggressively claim credit and ownership over everything they do,”

• “While it’s important to be recognized for what you do and the value you add, grabbing the glory is going to turn off your coworkers.” It can also turn off your boss, he warns.

• “Trying too hard to show you’re a superstar tells me that you only care about what’s best for you, and not the company as a whole.”

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Salli Setta

• Never eat lunch alone.• it’s important to get out from behind your screen

at lunchtime because lunch is a prime networking opportunity.

• The benefit of always having lunch plans with someone are two-fold: You can get information that will help you “think about your job differently,” and you also get on your companion’s radar.

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Deepak Chopra

• Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.• “there is wisdom in uncertainty — it opens a

door to the unknown, and only from the unknown can life be renewed constantly,”

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Cynthia Tidwell

• Be patient enough to learn, but impatient enough to take risks.

• “I encourage taking risks,” she said. “What is the worst thing that can happen? You can go back and do what you were doing before.”

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Brian Chesky

• Don’t listen to your parents.• “They’re the most important relationships in your life,

but you should never take your parents’ career advice, and I’m using parents as a proxy for all the pressures in the world,”

• “I also say that whatever career you’re in, assume it’s going to be a massive failure. That way, you’re not making decisions based on success, money and career. You’re only making it based on doing what you love.”

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David Melancon

• Ask 3 important questions at the end of every interview.• When a hiring manager turns the tables at the end of an

interview and asks, “do you have any questions for me?” The questions are:1. What qualities will a person in this role need to be successful

in your company culture — as an individual and as a worker?2. What’s the company’s position on education and

development, including student-loan reimbursement and tuition assistance?

3. How does the company keep employees excited, innovative, and motivated?

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Diane von Furstenberg

• Keep it real.• “In order to trust yourself, you have to have a

relationship with yourself,” • “In order to have a relationship with yourself,

you have to be hard on yourself, and not be delusional.”

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Rick Goings

• Be nice to everyone.• “I like to check with the driver, our

receptionist, and my assistants on how the candidate interacted with them. How you treat others means the world!”

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Thank you!!

Source: “25 successful people share their best career advice” in World Economic Forum website

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