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Jeff Bezos used one simple question to decide whether to quit Wall Street and start Amazon: What will I regret when I’m 80?
By Preston ForeNovember 3, 2026
Mark Cuban in 2001 holding up a Dairy Queen ice cream cone
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Mark Cuban says Gen Z should think more like Jeff Bezos and stop chasing the perfect job: ‘Just get a job’—even at McDonald’s or Dairy Queen
By Preston ForeOctober 29, 2026
Sam Altman
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Sam Altman shares his ‘chronic disappointment’ in MBA students—they’re stuck on what ‘was cool five years ago,’ instead of embracing AI possibilities
By Preston ForeOctober 28, 2026
Tired businesswoman
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As AI threatens entry-level jobs, Gen Z is souring on if another degree can help—U.S. business school applications have plunged 25%
By Preston ForeOctober 27, 2026
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Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi worked from midnight until 5 a.m. as a receptionist to pay for her Yale degree—and she says ‘respect went up’ because of it
By Preston ForeOctober 25, 2026
Catherine Tan-Gillespie
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KFC’s president started washing dishes at 13 but dreamt of being the ‘female Richard Branson’—so she quit jobs that wouldn’t embrace her personality
By Preston ForeOctober 24, 2026
Martha Stewart
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Martha Stewart says people need to get it through their ‘thick skulls’ that there’s ‘no such thing as balance’—even at 85 she starts work at 7 a.m.
By Preston ForeOctober 21, 2026
Costco CEO Ron Vachris rose from forklift driver to the C-suite without a college degree: ‘Don’t chase a title’ is the career advice that got him there
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Costco CEO Ron Vachris rose from forklift driver to the C-suite without a college degree: ‘Don’t chase a title’ is the career advice that got him there
By Preston ForeOctober 18, 2026
Satya Nadella gestures with both hands
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Microsoft’s CEO is still haunted by staying silent in a meeting with Bill Gates. Years later, his boss Steve Ballmer taught him how to speak up
By Preston ForeOctober 15, 2026
Bridget Griswold, the 25-year-old CEO of women’s leadership non-profit Lean In
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The Gen Z CEO of Lean In says the ‘broken rung’ is one of the most pervasive issues women face in their careers
By Emma BurleighOctober 14, 2026
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Despite his $200 million success, Matthew McConaughey spent a weekend in the desert reading 20 years of bad reviews—he says some of them had ‘a point’
By Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 13, 2026
Jeff Bezos wearing a bowtie
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Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: ‘You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand’
By Preston ForeOctober 12, 2026
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Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers—‘or you’re neurodivergent’
By Preston ForeOctober 10, 2026
Side by side of headshots of Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino
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Linda Yaccarino spent 2 years as Elon Musk’s X CEO. She says his ‘insatiable sense of urgency’ is the secret to his trillionaire success
By Preston ForeOctober 7, 2026
Warren Buffett
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Retired Warren Buffett now spends his evenings glued to YouTube—watching Glenn Close clips, 1950s commercials, and Uzbekistani talent shows
By Preston ForeOctober 6, 2026
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