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Ever wondered what the heck you’re supposed to put as your LinkedIn background? We’ve got you covered. Choose from a wide selection of real, no-jargon-allowed quotes from top business leaders – plus a few of our Section professors.

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Scott Galloway

"Failure and invention are inseparable twins."

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Scott Galloway

"Don’t follow your passion. Follow your talent."

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Karan Girotra

"Don't be a know it all.
Be a learn it all."

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MBS

"Tell less and ask more. Your advice is not as good as you think it is."

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Sahar Yousef

"Don’t think about what’s going to happen next year. Think about what you’ll do in the next hour."

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Elon Musk

"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."

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Satya Nadella

"To be a leader in this company, your job is to find the rose petals in a field of shit."

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Michael Bloomberg

"You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts."

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Sara Blakely

"The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness."

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Sheryl Sandberg

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocketship, don’t ask what seat."

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Jack Ma

"Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are."

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Jay Z

“You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.”

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Warren Buffet

"It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes."

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Indra Nooyi

“If you don’t give people a chance to fail, you won’t innovate.”

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Oprah

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”

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Arvind Krishna

"Curiosity is what will allow you to find problems that are worth solving."

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Amar Bose

"No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move."

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April Dunford

"It's better to be a little boring than completely baffling."

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