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

2. BEST ADVICE
What is the
you’ve ever gotten?

3. LinkedIn Influencers reveal the insights that
helped shape their careers.

4. Listen more
than you talk.
Nobody learned
anything by hearing
themselves speak.
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RICHARD BRANSON
Founder at Virgin Group

5. Sometimes “no” makes
sense, but sometimes
it is a way to stay
comfortable.
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BETH COMSTOCK
CMO at GE

6. The only thing that
matters is what you
know to be true
about your goals
and intentions.
Everything else is
noise.
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SUZE ORMAN
Television host, author,
motivational speaker, producer

7. I heard my father say it
first: “Refuse to play in
the baby pool.”
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MICHAEL POWELL
President & CEO at NCTA

8. 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!

9. 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.
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MARY BARRA
CEO, General Motors Company

10. 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.
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CHIP BERGH
President and CEO,
Levi Strauss & Co.

11. 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

12. 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

13. “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.
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BRIAN WONG
Founder and CEO, Kiip

14. 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

15. BEST ADVICE
What is the
you’ve ever gotten—or given?

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