“Ignore what your parents say. Especially if you’re an affluent kid. A lot of pressure from coming from the right schools with all the right advantages, with successful parents.

And try as many suits on as you can to see what you like. When you land on something you like, you're going to know it and you’ll build a career on it.”

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“If you can link the passion you

have for a specific activity with a

broader purpose that gets you up

every morning, that's what's been

most helpful to me.”

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“You have to take risks.

On Wall Street you can make

quite a bit of money by staying

in the pack.

But maybe I don't want to be

in the pack.”

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“One day I went to an exercise at 6:00 in the morning.

And at 6:00 p.m. that night I was in a German hospital

with a smashed spine, and a broken cradle, and a

broken career. Life promises you nothing. You better

live like life promises you nothing.

Opportunity knocks for everybody. But most people

don't have their bags packed. Or they haven't been

listening for the doorbell.”

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“My father's advice was: create a

reputation. Not an external reputation,

but internal reputation in a business and

in an industry that you enjoy.

And if you've wanted to do something on

your own, you go and do it. But you don't

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“The most inspiring moment was to have the

opportunity of visiting The White House and meeting

John F. Kennedy. He was looking across a group of us

and he said: ‘People in this world are not getting along

well. But you, young people, you get along. There are

no national boundaries. The only question is

whether you can extend your helping hand to

people who are in need.’”

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“You can pretty much do anything that you put your

mind to. What I learned, though, is that if you're going to

have that confidence, you better be incredibly humble and

realize that there is in fact a lot that you don't know and

have no problem asking for help.”Click here to

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“Embrace diversity. It’s your world. And

your world is going to be more and more

diverse. You're going to have to live with

people of different educations, cultures,

beliefs, and backgrounds.”

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“I think there's nothing wrong if kids took a year off

between high school and college. There's nothing

wrong with sitting back and thinking, ‘What do I

want to be,’ before you start accumulating $100,000

or $80,000 into student loan.“

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