Tag: advice
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The Old Skin Has To Be Shed
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” -Joseph Campbell
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Thomas S. Murphy | Success Advice from Successful People
Former CEO, Capital Cities/ABC I got two pieces of advice I have always remembered. The first was from my father, Charles E. Murphy, who was a justice of the New York State Supreme Court. It was a point about ethics. He said, “Doing the wrong thing is not worth the loss of one night’s good…
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Bob Iger | Success Advice from Successful People
President and CEO, Walt Disney My father wrote in my sixth-grade yearbook quoting Hamlet – Polonius to his son, Laertes: “To thine own self be true.” I was 12 years old, but it had a powerful impression on me then, and I’ve often thought of it since.
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Nelson Peltz | Success Advice from Successful People
CEO, Trian Fund Management It was my dad who gave me the best advice of my 45-year career: “Get sales up, and keep expenses down.” That sounds simplistic, but it’s the way my father got 4% margins in his food business when his competitors made 1% or 2%. The goal is to get revenues moving…