Advice from 14 successful CEOs and entrepreneurs
These industry experts impart advice for achieving success.
Image: REUTERS/Mike Segar
Stay up to date:
Future of Work
Regardless of how we define it, success can feel like a fleeting and often elusive target.
It takes confidence, passion, and drive to reach a level of success and then do what's necessary to sustain it.
We've collected wisdom from 14 prominent CEOs and entrepreneurs who have seen drastic ups and downs throughout their careers.
Their advice is as appropriate for someone just starting out as for an industry veteran.
Steve Jobs, Apple cofounder and late CEO
Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder
Jack Ma, Alibaba Group founder and chairman
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO
Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur and 'Shark Tank' investor
Barbara Corcoran, Corcoran Group co-founder and 'Shark Tank' investor
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO
Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and CEO/Square founder and CEO
Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder and chairman
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder and CEO
Aaron Levie, Box cofounder and CEO
Lori Greiner, serial entrepreneur and 'Shark Tank' investor
Marc Andreessen, serial entrepreneur and Andreessen Horowitz partner
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies
Don't miss any update on this topic
Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.
License and Republishing
World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.
Related topics:
Forum Stories newsletter
Bringing you weekly curated insights and analysis on the global issues that matter.
More on BusinessSee all
Kalin Bracken and Sam Chandan
June 6, 2025
Michelle You
June 4, 2025
Apoorve Dubey
June 4, 2025
Michele Stansfield and Eva Borge
June 2, 2025
Naala Oleynikova
May 28, 2025