1. Oprah Winfrey (queen of daytime television): grateful
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up
having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever
have enough."
2. Warren Buffet: patient
"It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But
it's not easy to get rich quick."
3. Bill Gates: humble
"I essentially sacrifice nothing that I want,
and there are people who are out in the field and they are giving more."
4. Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world): inquisitive
"The most important aspect of my personality, as
far as determining my success goes, has been my questioning conventional
wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority," Ellison said.
"While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and
teachers, it's enormously useful in life."
5. Michael Bloomberg (making financial information available to people right on their desktops): brave
"Life is too short to spend your time avoiding
failure."
6. Mark Zuckerberg: persistent
7. Sheldon Adelson (CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation): tenacious
8. Sergey Brin (Google Co-founder): innovative
“Innovation was always the forefront
of his motivation to succeed.”
9. Donald Trump: passionate
"Without passion, you don't
have energy; without energy, you have nothing,"
10.Jeff Bezos (Amazon Founder): courageous
"I cannot overstate how important incremental
innovation is. But for the big innovation, you have to be willing to
fail."
11.George Soros: curious
12.Carl Icahn: competitive
13.Steve Ballmer (Former Microsoft co-worker): detail-oriented
"Is a master of precision questioning to analyze
and get to the root issues of any problem whether it is business or technology
related."
14.Phil Knight (co-founder of Nike): determined
With an initial investment of just $1,000, Knight
sold his shoes from the back of a station wagon to local runners and eventually
grew the company into a worldwide leader with $27.8 billion.
15.Michael Dell (Founder & CEO of Dell technologies): confident
"You don't have to be a
genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just
need a framework and a dream."
16.Charlie Ergen (Former President and CEO of Dish Network and EchoStar Communications Corporation): visionary
17.Larry Page (Google Co-founded): intuitive
“It's a good thing he listened to
his gut.”
18.Charles and David Koch: strategic
"A lot of companies — and
we've been guilty of this in the past — want to hire the smartest person, the most
talented person," Charles Koch said. "Well, the worst thing we can
do, as we found, is hire a very talented person with
poor values. If we are going to hire somebody with poor values, we want
somebody who's not very smart, because he or she will do less damage."
19.Jan Koum (WhatsApp Owner): creative
20.Richard Branson (Virgin Group Founder): fearless
"You don't learn to walk by
following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." “You’ve got
to get out of your comfort zone and take risks if you want to achieve
greatness.”
21.Mark Cuban (Owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment and chairman of AXS TV): charming
Cuban knows the importance of winning hearts and minds. "People hate dealing
with people who are jerks," Cuban said. "It's always easier to be
nice than to be a jerk. Don't be a jerk."
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