Just Say No
In a wide-ranging, hour-long chat with Levo League, Warren Buffett revealed many secrets of his success, and perhaps the most important was learning to say “no.” For example, when meeting Bill Gates for the first time in 1991, he impressed the Microsoft founder by scheduling time to follow up in a nearly blank datebook. “You’ve got to keep control of your time,” revealed Buffett. “And you won’t… unless you can say no. You can’t let other people set your agenda in life.”
How These 24 Business Leaders Stay Productive and Successful
What do people like Jeff Bezos, Marissa Mayer, and Richard Branson do to stay on top?
Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
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How These 24 Business Leaders Stay Productive and Successful
- Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
- Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo
- Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group
- Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
- Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO of Xerox
- Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
- Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
- Martha Stewart, Founder of Martha Stewart Living
- Jack Dorsey, Co-founder of Twitter, Founder and CEO of Square
- Reed Hastings, Co-founder and CEO of Netflix
- Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo
- Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox
- Virginia Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
- Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric
- Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
- Larry Page, Co-founder and CEO of Google
- Howard Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks
- Meg Whitman, President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Biz Stone, Co-founder of Twitter
- Evan Williams, Co-founder of Twitter
- Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook
- Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President and CEO of JPMorgan Chase