Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Best Advice LinkedIn Influencers Ever Got

The Best Advice LinkedIn Influencers Ever Got


What's the best advice you've ever gotten?

We asked LinkedIn Influencers to share the insights that helped shape their lives and careers. Here are some of our favorite quotes, and you can read all the posts here:http://linkd.in/1BQhkqW
Published in: Leadership & Management, Career


Transcript

  • 1. BEST ADVICE What is the you’ve ever gotten?
  • 2. LinkedIn Influencers reveal the insights that helped shape their careers.
  • 3. Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak. Read More RICHARD BRANSON Founder at Virgin Group
  • 4. Sometimes “no” makes sense, but sometimes it is a way to stay comfortable. Read More BETH COMSTOCK CMO at GE
  • 5. The only thing that matters is what you know to be true about your goals and intentions. Everything else is noise. Read More SUZE ORMAN Television host, author, motivational speaker, producer
  • 6. I heard my father say it first: “Refuse to play in the baby pool.” Read More MICHAEL POWELL President & CEO at NCTA
  • 7. Don’t let the things you can’t control steal attention from the areas where you can make a difference. Never let the howls and barks derail you from where you need to go. MAYNARD WEBB Chairman, Yahoo!
  • 8. Just like they did when I was starting out, the STEM fields provide some of the most rewarding careers in America today. As engineers, scientists, and inventors, we get to imagine what’s next, and then make it happen. Read More MARY BARRA CEO, General Motors Company
  • 9. One of the first things I learned as an officer was that officers always ate last. The principle is simple: to be a good leader, you take care of your people first. Read More CHIP BERGH President and CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.
  • 10. I learned a lot from my father. He gave me the permission — and the courage — to follow my beliefs. CARRIE SCHWAB-POMERANTZ President, Charles Schwab Foundation Senior Vice President, Charles Schwab
  • 11. So “to be or not to be?” isn’t the question. The question is: What are you willing to do in order to be what you want to be? KEVIN O’LEARY Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank, Founder at O’Leary Financial Group
  • 12. “If you ask for money, you get advice. If you ask for advice, you get money.” Those words changed the entire course of my career. Read More BRIAN WONG Founder and CEO, Kiip
  • 13. Poke your nose out. Raise your hand. Join. Take a seat. Take your turn. Try. Launch. Tell your own story. ANN HANDLEY Author, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs
  • 14. BEST ADVICE What is the you’ve ever gotten—or given?
  • 15. Tell us your story. Click here to start.


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