CNN Money has a great snippet-style piece profiling power players in today’s struggling economy about the best advice, whether financial or worldly, they’ve received in their lifetime. Included in the profile are well-known names like Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and limelight players like Segway inventor Dean Kamen.
Some gems from the article:
“[A]ll the other fathers have time after they come home to play ball or sit around. At the end of the day, you’re working.”
“Those fathers are doctors, lawyers and bankers. When they come home, all they want to do is their hobby. My work and my hobby are the same. Find work in something you love and it won’t feel like work.” – Dean Kamen
“From Carnegie to Rockefeller, it was never how much they made at work that made them wealthy – it was their investments.” – Mellody Hobson, Ariel Investments
“Save your money first and get used to living on what’s left over.” – Olivia S. Mitchell, Director at the Wharton School
It got me thinking about the best advice I’ve received in my short life.
Without a doubt, it’s been my father’s creed to always ‘Study hard. Take good notes’. Whether literally following his advice in school beneath a giant callus on my writing hands’ middle-finger, I’ve taken that advice to mean more in my 20′s. Everyday presents a new challenge, and, accordingly, you need to take the lessons of today to make a better tomorrow. Always keeping a positive default setting, through your side hustle or job transition, having thorough notes throughout those moments will keep you abreast of the murky waters.
Carter
Best advice I have ever received:
I don’t care if they have an advantage or if the refs cheat, that just means you have to run faster, jump higher and hit harder. My parents to me in little league football
I have used this principal in every aspect of my life since then.
August 13, 2008 at 3:32 pm
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December 14, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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February 13, 2009 at 11:33 am
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March 25, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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June 5, 2010 at 3:32 am