BUSINESS LEADERS
Jeff Bezos
Role: Founder, Chairman & CEO of Amazon
Quote: A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Net worth: $2.7B
Birthplace: Albuquerqe, New Mexico
Degree: B.S. Princeton University
Age: 52
Social Media: Twitter.
Warren Buffett
Role: Chairman & CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway
Quote: It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Net worth: $68.5B
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska
Degree: M.S. Columbia University
Age: 85
Social Media: Twitter.
Jack Dorsey
Role: Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter and Square
Quote: My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
Net worth: $2.3B
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
Age: 39
Social Media: Twitter.
Daniel Ek
Role: Co-Founder & CEO of Spotify
Quote: Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
Net worth: $400M
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Age: 33
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Arianna Huffington
Role: President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group
Quote: Fearlessness is like a muscle. The more I exercise it the more natural it becomes not to let my fears run me.
Net worth: $3.2B
Birthplace: Athens, Greece
Degree: M.A. University of Cambridge
Age: 65
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Jay Z
Role: Co-Founder of Carter Enterprises
Quote: People respect success. They respect big. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
Net worth: $550M
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Age: 46
Jack Ma
Role: Founder & Chairman of Alibaba Group
Quote: You should learn from your competitor, but never copy.
Net worth: $24.1B
Birthplace: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Degree: CEO Program. Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
Age: 51
John Mackey
Role: Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Whole Foods
Quote: It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
Net worth: $100M
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Age: 62
Charlie Munger
Role: Vice-Chairman of Berkshire-Hathaway
Quote: I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.
Net worth: $1.32B
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska
Degree: J.D. Harvard University
Age: 92
Elon Musk
Role: CEO of SpaceX & Tesla Motors
Quote: I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Net worth: $14.2B
Birthplace: Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Degree: B.S. University of Pennsylvania
Age: 44
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Satya Nadella
Role: CEO of Microsoft
Quote: The one thing that defines me is that I love to learn.
Birthplace: Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Degree: M.B.A. University of Chicago
Age: 48
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
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Indra Nooyi
Role: Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo
Quote: I'm brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
Net worth: $144M
Birthplace: Greenwich, Connecticut
Degree: M.A. Yale University
Age: 60
Social Media: Twitter.
Larry Page
Role: CEO of Alphabet, Inc
Quote: My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society.
Net worth: $38B
Birthplace: East Lansing, Michigan
Degree: M.S. Stanford University
Age: 43
Mark Parker
Role: CEO of Nike
Quote: Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.
Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York
Degree: B.A. Pennsylvania State University
Age: 60
Sundar Pichai
Role: CEO of Google
Quote: The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.
Birthplace: Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Degree: M.B.A. The University of Pennsylvania
Age: 43
Social Media: Twitter.
Sheryl Sandberg
Role: COO of Facebook
Quote: The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
Net worth: $1.31B
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Degree: M.B.A. Harvard University
Age: 46
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Dan Schulman
Role: President & CEO of PayPal
Quote: We want to democratize the management and movement of money.
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey
Degree: M.B.A. New York University
Age: 58
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Adam Silver
Role: Commissioner of the National Basketball Association
Quote: One of the great things about the NBA is that we are both influenced by culture and we influence culture.
Birthplace: Rye, New York
Degree: J.D. University of Chicago
Age: 54
Bill Simmons
Role: Owner of Bill Simmons Media Group
Quote: Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling.
Birthplace: Marlborough, Massachusetts
Degree: B.A. College of the Holy Cross
Age: 46
Social Media: Twitter.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Role: Founder & CEO of VaynerMedia
Quote: People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
Net worth: $10M
Birthplace: Babruysk, Belarus
Degree: B.S. Mount Ida College
Age: 40
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Jeff Weiner
Role: CEO of LinkedIn
Quote: You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.
Net worth: $200M
Birthplace: New York, New York
Degree: B.Sc. University of Pennsylvania
Age: 46
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Meg Whitman
Role: President & CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Quote: When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
Net worth: $2.1B
Birthplace: Huntington, New York
Degree: M.B.A. Harvard University
Age: 59
Social Media: Twitter. LinkedIn.
Mark Zuckerberg
Role: Co-Founder & CEO of Facebook
Quote: A simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Net worth: $48.2B
Birthplace: White Plains, New York
Age: 31
Social Media: Facebook.
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