Category: success

  • How To Live Before You Die | Steve Jobs

    Stanford University, 2005 Steve Jobs CEO, Apple and Pixar Animation Truth be told, I never graduated from college… Today I want to tell you three stories from my life…

  • Leonard Lauder | Success Advice from Successul People

    Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estée Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face. I learned this lesson…

  • Tony Robbins | Success Advice from Successful People

    Performance coach In 1979, when I was 19, I had all these people giving me conflicting advice. Jim Rohn, a personal-development speaker, said, ‘Tony, think about it this way. If your worst enemy drops sugar in your coffee, what’s going to happen to you? Nothing. But what if your best friend drops strychnine in your…

  • Michael Bloomberg | Success Advice from Successful People

    Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg LP I can’t remember who told me this, but I certainly didn’t grow up knowing it, so I must have gotten this advice at Salomon Brothers in the 1970s. The advice was, first, always ask for the order, and second, when the customer says yes, stop talking.…

  • Favorable Conditions Never Come

    “If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” -C.S. Lewis

  • Tina Fey | Success Advice from Successful People

    Actress, creator and star of 30 Rock About 15 years ago, I saw an Oprah show where she said, “Always be the only person who can sign your checks.” At the time, I had no money. I was at Second City in Chicago. I came to New York in 1997 to work on Saturday Night…