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Super-successful people reveal the best advice they ever received

Advice for success
Bill Gates – Keep things simple
Mark Zuckerberg – The biggest risk is not taking any risks
Warren Buffett – Exercise humility and restraint
Oprah Winfrey – When you know better, you do better
Amancio Ortega – Never stop innovating
Mark Cuban – There are no shortcuts
Brian Chesky – Build something people love, not something people sort of like
JK Rowling – Embrace failure
Carlos Slim Helu – Don’t run from a crisis
Suze Orman – With success comes unhelpful criticism; ignore it
Richard Parsons – It’s a small business and long life
Mary Barra – Work hard and pursue what you love
Sheryl Sandberg – All that matters is growth
Mohamed El-Erian – Have an open mind
Terry J. Lundgren – Do well to progress
Shafqat Islam – Don’t be afraid to hear ‘no’
Maureen Chiquet – Listen
Lloyd Blankfein – Don’t be quick to give your opinions
Rick Goings – Be nice to everyone
Ursula Burns – Stuff happens
Ben Silbermann – Don’t take too much advice
George Stephanopoulos – Relax
Richard Branson – Never look back in regret, move onto the next thing
Stewart Butterfield – Have an ‘experimental attitude’
Steve Jobs – Don’t just follow your passion
Michael Bloomberg – Never stop learning
Eric Schmidt – Say yes to more things
Arianna Huffington – Don’t work too hard
Tory Burch – Follow your instincts
Maynard Webb – Search for what you’re intended to do
Jeff Weiner – You can do anything
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Advice for success

We’ve all heard the clichéd formulas for success: ‘Do what you love’, ‘You only fail by not doing’, ‘As one door closes, another one opens’, and so on. Read on to find out the pieces of advice some of the world’s most successful people live by and who they got their inspiration from.
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lovemoney staff

29 May 2019

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