Motivation

Sarah Silverman

When a troll called comedian Sarah Silverman the C-word on Twitter, she responded with level-headed kindness, finding out he was in a lot of pain and...
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Steve Jobs

On September 23, 1997, Steve Jobs told his staff that Apple had eliminated some 70% of its product line. “It’s way too much stuff,” he said....
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John Chambers

As the CEO of one of the world’s most valuable companies, John Chambers of Cisco not intend to ever share the fact that he had a...
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Abraham Lincoln

Long before Lincoln crafted and delivered the famous Gettysburg Address— he became known as a storyteller, honing his skill on the American frontier. If it hadn’t...
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Nujeen Mustafa

Born with cerebral palsy, the 16-year-old has spent her life in a wheelchair. She had little formal education in Syria but taught herself English by watching...
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Satya Nadella

Nadella tells the story about his first round of interviews at Microsoft about 25 years ago. An up-and-coming Microsoft manager named Richard Tait asked Nadella a...
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Tony Fernandes and the Flight Attendant

When we started AirAsia Thailand there was this woman we hired as a flight attendant. A year into it she came and asked me, ‘Tony, I...
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Elon Musk

The world knows Elon Musk as a wealthy, imaginative genius — the man who is making electric cars mainstream and putting rockets in space. But when...
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H’Hen Nie (Ms. Vietnam)

The first and only Miss Vietnam who hails from an ethnic minority, the 26-year-old Finance major came from the Rade tribe whose customs include young women...
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Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

Philippe, the son of a French duke, became quadriplegic following a paragliding accident in 1993. At first, he didn’t adjust well to his disability, once attempting...
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