Oprah Winfrey

United States
Born on 29 Jan 1954
Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host

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I decided to be the best and the smartest.

Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe, 1998)
I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.

Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe, 1998)
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
There is a commodity in human experience. If it has happened to one person, it has happened to thousands of others.

Time (1988)
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute... best at what you do.

Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe, 1998)
I used to always say, 'I never went to business school and I never read a business book.' But now I think maybe I should have read a few.

Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe, 1998)
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
One of the most important things about being a good manager is to rule with a heart. You have to know the business, but you also have to know what's at the heart of the business and that's people.

The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Bill Adler, 1997)
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good. But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.

The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Bill Adler, 1997)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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