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Key Takeaways When I was a young entrepreneur, I set out on a mission to meet successful people and ask them one question: “What is the best advice you ever received in your life?”
The answers I received have not only moved my career forward, but they’ve also given me invaluable lessons about how to live a meaningful life.
I’ve always been inspired by the success of others. But I’ve also been curious about where that success comes from. What sets a person on the pathway to becoming a visionary? What sparks their belief that they can go out and change the world?
Today, I run one of the world’s most successful dialing software companies. But many years ago, I was a young entrepreneur who needed some direction. So I turned my curiosity into a sort of mission to meet successful people and ask them one simple question:
“What is the best advice you ever received in your life?”
Here are two of the most memorable answers I’ve ever received. I hope they inspire you the way they continue to inspire me.
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Steve Forbes on seizing opportunities
In my early 20s, one of the people I admired most in life was Steve Forbes. He had launched countless successful publications and business ventures. I figured that whatever advice had set him on that path would also hold real value for my life. So I committed myself to finding an opportunity to meet him.
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