Tips from Buffett, Bloomberg, and Marina Abramovic

New book best advice is to get a big name suggests. In her new book, Getting There: A Book of Mentors, Gillian Zoe Segal surveys a number of business stars for insights on how they got to the corner office. Here, some selected advice.


Warren Buffett: CEO, Berkshire Hathaway 
"You have a 300 horsepower engine and a 300 horsepower gain, or you can get a lot less. There is a good thing to see people with larger engines, but with the most efficient that these people. "

Matthew Weiner: Mad Men creator 
"If they do not like it, but do not listen to reason. People feel that they have something to say, and they often hurt your feelings to a justification for stabilizing the fact that the recording of what your business has declined. "

Michael Bloomberg: CEO, Bloomberg LP 
"The use of the word" we "and" us ", referring to your business. Do not use the 'I' and 'me'. It sounds arrogant."

Les Moonves: CEO, CBS
"If you say no, in the year about five hundred television well, we are encamped shows, and just put on a new air ... but we have a show when they hit the People have to want to come back to us. "

Jim Koch: Founder the Boston Beer Company 
"Boston Beer Company is a standard employment is simple: they shall average not only hiring someone"

Nitin Nohria: B- Harvard Dean of the Faculty
"If you could take a long time, and even that can be a painful process to understand the strengths and weaknesses, but it should be in your life is one of the most important things."

Marina Abramovic: Artist
"That you appreciate your presence on this planet to help put the idea in everyday life to death is important."

Gary Hirshberg: Co-founder, Stonyfield form
"You think to question his authority. Authority is a short-term phenomenon."

Stacy Snyder: Co-Chair, 20th Century Fox
"These ideas, especially in writing, must be able to offer good."

Helene Gayle: Executive and CEO of CARE USA President
"Some of the things about being enhanced by the acquisition of social change."


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