Jeff Bezos
Graduation Commencement Address at Princeton University 2010
Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.
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Brian Dyson
Commencement Speech at Georgia Tech, 1996
Work is (like) a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.
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Carly Fiorina
Commencement Address at MIT, 2000
The only limits that really matters are the ones you put on yourself
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Chris Gardner
Commencement Address at UC Berkley, 2009
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
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Angela Ahrendts
Commencement Address at Ball State University 2010
We live by what we believe not by what we see.
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Sheryl Sandberg
Commencement Address at Barnard College, 2011
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face – and there will be barriers – be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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You don’t need to change yourself. Ever. You need to come home to yourself. And that changes everything.
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John Mackey
Commencement Address at Bentley College, 2008
As long as you are alive, it is never too late.
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David L. Calhoun
Commencement Address at Ball State University 2010
Understand that whatever else may fail you, whatever bad luck or failure may befall you, your personal integrity is always in your own hands and can never be taken from you.
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Guy Kawasaki
Commencement Address at Babson College, 2000
Happiness is temporary and fleeting… Joy is the right goal.”
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Sumner Redstone
Commencement Address at Kellogg Business School, 2002
Remember, true opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity – and if I don’t find it, I have to create it.”
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Larry Bock
Commencement Address at University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry, 2007
Success takes equal parts of chutzpah and humility.
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Muriel Siebert
Commencement Address at Case Western Reserve, 1998
When you hit a closed door and it doesn’t open easily, don’t get discouraged. Just remember my Studebaker. When all else fails, just rear back and kick the door open. But don’t do it just for yourself — do it also for those who follow you.
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Earl Bakken
Commencement Address at university of Hawaii, 2004
Never give in to pessimism. Don’t know that you can’t fly, and you will soar like an eagle. Don’t end up regretting what you did not do because you were too lazy or too frightened to soar. Be a bumblebee! And soar to the heavens. You can do it. …………………………………………………………………