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Oprah Winfrey
United States
Born on 29 Jan 1954
Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host
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On Leadership:
Power wasn't even part of my vocabulary.
'The 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business,' Fortune (1999)
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On Business:
I don't invest in anything I don't understand�it makes more sense to buy TV stations than oil wells.
Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe; 1998)
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On Luck:
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Francis Bacon
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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