Tag: successful
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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…
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Sam Palmisano | Success Advice from Successful People
Chairman and CEO, IBM The best advice was from a former boss, who told me, “Don’t view your career as a linear progression.” He advised me to take horizontal rather than vertical steps: to try out situations that are unstructured, to learn different ways of working, and to get outside of headquarters and experience different…
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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.