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This CEO lived on canned soup and took just two days off for his daughter’s birth. Now, he admits he lost sight of proper work-life balance

Ron Schneidermann, CEO of test prep company Acely, is urging Gen Z to do it differently.

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He went from washing lab equipment for $10 an hour to leading a $30 billion healthcare company. His advice to Gen Z: Raise your hand

Dexcom CEO Jake Leach says the secret to getting ahead isn't asking for a promotion—it's becoming the person willing to take on what others won't.

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Billionaires Ray Dalio and Richard Branson hate workplace gossip—but men who do it could face a steeper career penalty than women, study finds

New research found that men who gossip are perceived as less competent and less qualified for leadership roles than women who engage in the same...

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Abdul El-Sayed’s commencement speech in 2007 was so good it led Bill Clinton to tell him to go into politics at just 22 years old

Abdul El-Sayed’s University of Michigan speech impressed Bill Clinton so much that he encouraged the future senator-elect to go into politics.

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Rhode Island’s new Governor Helena Foulkes spent 25 years at CVS and lost her first election—she says failure and bad bosses made her a better leader

Helena Foulkes spent decades in corporate before making a run for governor: ‘You can go for something and it doesn't work, and yet other gifts come’

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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?

Now worth $357 billion, Jeff Bezos once created a “regret minimization framework” to decide whether to quit his cushy hedge fund job to create Amazon.

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From Wall Street heirs to telecoms tycoons, at least half of major U.S. Senate candidates are millionaires—and some are worth upwards of $200 million

While millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet, some U.S. Senate candidates like Mark Warner and Pete Ricketts are worth as much as $200...

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Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO could turn staff into millionaires—but the AI firm is asking candidates what they’d do if stock fell to zero

With an IPO looming, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei—who has a net worth of $13.6 billion—has reportedly expressed concerns that AI workers are...

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Welcome to the school where Gen Z learns philanthropy as billionaire wealth explodes—with a 100% job placement rate

Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy is the only college in the U.S. where students can strictly study the art of giving—and...

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Gen Z doesn’t think their degrees will land them work anymore, so they’re becoming their own bosses instead—and these college towns are thriving

As AI upends the job market, exclusive GoDaddy data finds a new wave of entrepreneurial activity taking root in some lesser-known college towns.

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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

Billionaire Mark Cuban started out selling trash bags. Now, he says Gen Z should stop chasing the perfect job and get working—even in fast food.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares his ‘chronic disappointment’ in Gen Z—they’re stuck on what ‘was cool five years ago,’ instead of embracing AI

Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will upend jobs—but young workers who embrace entrepreneurship could turn disruption into opportunity.

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Not even an MBA can save Gen Z and they know it—now U.S. business school applications have plunged 25% as job prospects dim

Business school is becoming a tougher sell for Gen Z, even as graduates of top MBA programs land jobs with median base salaries of at least $175,000.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says young people can’t run away from AI or ‘wish it away’—but they shouldn’t let it do this one thing

With two Gen Z children of his own, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI can help young people get ahead—but human judgment and ingenuity remain essential.

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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

The former PepsiCo CEO says grinding through overnight shifts as an Ivy League receptionist earned her respect no social connection could buy.

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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

KFC’s president Catherine Tan-Gillespie started her career on just £1.20/hour—and promotion after promotion led her to the top of the fried...

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Elizabeth Holmes documentary maker Nathan Fielder started out as a broker—he quit because it was depressing and now is making millions

“You Can See Everything” is set to make $25 million in its second week. But its director, Nathan Fielder, had a fairly humble start to life.

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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt worked 60-hour weeks: ‘I used to tell people my job is to sit in meetings 12 hours a day’—he says AI will kill that burden

Billionaire Eric Schmidt spent 12-hour days coordinating teams as Google CEO. Now, he says, AI could eliminate thousands of “glue people” jobs.

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Martha Stewart says people need to get through their ‘thick skulls’ that there’s ‘no such thing as balance’—even at 85 she still starts work at 7 a.m.

The multimillionaire lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart says she’s jealous of people who achieve work-life balance—but suspects their lives are boring.

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Jamie Dimon says CEOs should be more like Ted Lasso instead of like ‘autocrats’—and tell their employees how they truly feel

The JPMorgan Chase CEO admits Apple TV’s Ted Lasso offers a leadership lesson in balancing empathy and accountability while building a winning team.

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As billionaires ditch California, Gen Z is following close behind—the state saw the biggest net loss of young people, many moving to Texas

As billionaires like Larry Page and Peter Thiel leave California, Gen Z is following suit—they’re moving to more affordable South Carolina and...

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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

Even without a college degree, Costco CEO Ron Vachris rose from the warehouse floor to the corner office—guided by his father’s advice.

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Despite a $500 million net worth, Shaq’s on his 5th college degree—and tells Gen Z that AI can’t replace sitting across people smarter than you

Shaquille O’Neal promised his mom he’d finish college when he left for the NBA in 1992. Now, the basketball legend has a bachelor’s, an MBA, an...

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Despite making over $200,000 a year, many NFL referees still hold full-time jobs as attorneys, aerospace engineers, and college professors

Gen Z may be juggling multiple jobs out of financial necessity, but they’re not alone. Many of the NFL’s 121 referees hold second jobs—just for fun.

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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

Satya Nadella still regrets staying silent in a meeting with Bill Gates around 2008-2009—but says the experience shaped his approach to career...

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Inside the college majors at elite universities where graduates earn more than $250,000—over 4 times their peers

Carnegie Mellon had six programs whose graduates earned more than $150,000 annually—the most of any university on the list.

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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,’ he slams

With $372 billion to his name, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says Americans have been taught to view billionaire success in the wrong light.

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Warren Buffett watches YouTube, David Solomon DJs, and this former NFL coach spent 12 years playing Minecraft

Mike Tomlin went viral for his 12-year Minecraft city—but like Warren Buffett and David Solomon, he shows how hobbies can help people recharge for...

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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’

Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, as one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies recruit more neurodivergent talent by 2027.

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Jeff Bezos says a 3-day workweek and more single-income households are on the way thanks to AI: ‘It’s going to be difficult to hire people’

Even after Amazon cut 30,000 jobs, Jeff Bezos predicts AI will boost productivity so much that fewer people will need to work, creating a labor...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says if you want to be successful, prepare to suffer: ‘If it’s a walk in the park, anybody could do it’

Even after 33 years of building Nvidia, Jensen Huang still works seven days a week—and says building something incredible requires “suffering.”

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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

As CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino saw firsthand what has fueled Elon Musk’s path to a trillionaire: treating every deadline like it’s right now.

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Retired Warren Buffett now spends his evenings glued to YouTube—watching Glenn Close clips, 1950s commercials, and Uzbekistani talent shows

96-year-old Buffett now spends his evenings watching YouTube—but the billionaire has long made time for reading, bridge and seeking work-life balance.

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Just a few years into working, Gen Z is already the most anxious generation about AI derailing their retirement—51% fear it will cut their nest egg

As AI disrupts career paths, Gen Z is already far more worried than millennials or Gen Xers about having enough money for their golden years of...

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Apple’s Steve Wozniak says he cofounded the tech giant after 5 rejections from HP—not to ‘make money.’ For years, his paycheck was just $50

While he could’ve been a trillionaire today, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak sold his stake early: “I didn’t want to be near money, because it...

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‘We need to trust our employees’: This billionaire CEO went from counting cars in the parking lot past 6pm to embracing hybrid work

Jim Kavanaugh once believed employees needed to be in the office to get the job done. Now, he says leaders need to trust workers “like adults.”

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Ben Affleck says predictions that AI will wipe out jobs—or kill us all—are just propaganda: ‘In fact, more people technically are being employed’

Fears that AI could wipe out humanity are overblown, says Hollywood star Ben Affleck, who sold his AI startup to Netflix for $587 million earlier this...

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Fortune 500 Chief People Officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’

At Fortune’s inaugural AIQ Summit, executives from Palo Alto Networks, HPE, and Lennar, discussed how AI is reshaping firms—and the workers within...

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Paramount’s new co-CEO once hired a barista he met at a cafe with no resume. His advice to Gen Z: ‘Look up and make eye contact’

Billionaire-heir David Ellison tapped Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz as his No. 2 at Paramount after decades of betting on unconventional ideas, including...

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Carhartt CEO warns schools are steering Gen Z students away from a lucrative career path: Skilled trades can pay 32% more

Students interested in landing a six-figure trades job aren’t being set up for success, says Linda Hubbard—with half who start training never...

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Google data center lead says ‘hundreds of thousands’ of skilled trade jobs are open across the U.S.—and they’re ‘just waiting to be filled’

Despite growing backlash over data centers, trillions in AI investment are fueling a surge in high-paying skilled trades jobs across the U.S.

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He was Disney’s most junior employee when he rewrote the CEO’s op-ed. Now he’s a CEO, with advice for Gen Z: ‘Don’t really ask for permission’

Funko CEO Josh Simon’s first job was working under Disney’s Michael Eisner, where taking a risk taught him a career lesson he still carries today.

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Elon Musk says money might ‘not even matter’ in the future—but tells Gen Z to study arts, sciences, and engineering to know what to ask AI and robots

The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO says humanoid robots will usher in an “age of abundance”—and advises young people to embrace broad learning...

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How a Gen Zer built a $3.7 billion defense tech startup backed by Sequoia

Ethan Thornton launched Mach Industries at 19. Three years later, the startup is raising hundreds of millions and manufacturing autonomous defense...

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Citi CEO Jane Fraser swears by Warren Buffett’s golden rule for dealing with conflict at work: ‘Never, ever respond to that email in anger’

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says Warren Buffett gave her two rules for handling conflict at work. The first? "You can always call them an a--hole...

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Peter Thiel says Germany has a ‘fear of success’ problem—and it explains why entrepreneurs don’t scale like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg

The billionaire cofounder of PayPal and Palantir warns that Germany’s entrepreneurs too often shy away from scaling companies into global giants.

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Like Jamie Dimon, Databricks CEO hates days with too many meetings. He says it means he gets nothing done and he’s just got ‘monkeys on his back’

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi joins CEOs from JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon to United’s Scott Kirby in calling out unnecessary meetings.

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Indeed CEO says the job market is stuck in a ‘vicious cycle’ if 1,000 qualified candidates can’t get hired: ‘Something’s wrong’

Applicants are sending resumes into a black hole as hiring managers sift through AI-generated and fake applications. Indeed’s CEO says it's a...

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Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away faster

A historic $124 trillion wealth transfer is underway, and many heirs are using their influence to pressure older generations to spend down fortunes...

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Meet a 71-year-old who retired as a radiologist and professor, and now runs a banana-skewer business: ‘I never want to retire. Why would you do that?’

Richard Brown’s career has taken him from the exam room to the classroom and boardroom. At 71, he’s still working—and is now focused on...

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