This document provides biographical information and a quote for 27 business leaders. It includes their role, net worth, birthplace, education, and age. Leaders featured include CEOs of major companies like GM, Salesforce, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Xerox, Slack, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and more.

2. Mary Barra
• Role: CEO of General
Motors
• Quote: If we win the
hearts and minds of
employees, we're going
to have better business
success.
• Birthplace: Waterford,
Michigan
• Degree: M.B.A. Stanford
University
• Age: 54

3. Marc Benioff
• Role: Founder, Chairman
& CEO of Salesforce
• Quote: You must always
be able to predict what's
next and then have the
flexibility to evolve.
• Net worth: $3.8B
• Birthplace: San Francisco,
California
• Degree: B.A. University of
Southern California
• Age: 51

4. 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

5. 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

6. Ursula Burns
• Role: Chairman & CEO
of Xerox
• Quote: The best way to
change it is to do it. After
a while you become
it, and it's easy.
• Birthplace: New York,
New York
• Degree: M.S. Columbia
University
• Age: 57

7. Stewart Butterfield
• Role: Co-Founder &
CEO of Slack
• Quote: Life is too short to
do mediocre work and it
is definitely too short to
build worthless things.
• Birthplace: Lund, British
Columbia, Canada
• Degree: M.Ph. University
of Cambridge
• Age: 43

8. Grant Cardone
• Role: Owner of Cardone
Enterprises
• Quote: Your success will
be compromised by your
need to be liked by
everyone.
• Net worth: $100M
• Birthplace: Lake Charles,
Louisiana
• Degree: B.Sc. McNeese
State University
• Age: 58.

9. Brian Chesky
• Role: Co-Founder & CEO of
Airbnb
• Quote: If you want to create
a great product, just focus
on one person. Make that
person have the most
amazing experience ever.
• Net worth: $3.3B
• Birthplace: Niskayuna, New
York
• Degree: B.F.A. Rhode Island
School of Design
• Age: 34

10. Tim Cook
• Role: CEO of Apple
• Quote: You can only do so
many things great. Cast
aside everything else.
• Net worth: $785M
• Birthplace: Mobile,
Alabama
• Degree: M.B.A. Duke
University
• Age: 55

11. Mark Cuban
• Role: Owner of Dallas
Mavericks
• Quote: Sweat equity is the
most valuable equity there
is. Know your business and
industry better than anyone
else in the world.
• Net worth: $3.2B
• Birthplace: Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
• Degree: B.Sc. Indiana
University
• Age: 57

12. 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

13. 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

14. Lisa Falzone
• Role: Co-Founder & CEO
of Revel Systems
• Quote: If you recover
slow, you're dead.
Recover quickly, and
you will be successful.
• Degree: B.S. Stanford
University
• Age: 33

15. Reed Hastings
• Role: Co-Founder & CEO
of Netflix
• Quote: Stone Age. Bronze
Age. Iron Age. We define
entire epics of humanity
by the technology they
use.
• Net worth: $1.72B
• Birthplace: Boston, MA
• Degree: M.S. Stanford
University
• Age: 55

16. Marillyn Hewson
• Role: Chairman, President &
CEO of Lockheed Martin
• Quote: I like to know
whether you're the kind of
person who can set
priorities, take initiative and
drive results right from the
beginning.
• Birthplace: Junction City,
Kansas
• Degree: M.A. University of
Alabama
• Age: 62

17. Ryan Hoover
• Role: Founder & CEO
of Product Hunt
• Quote: Not everyone
should start a company
and not every idea needs
funding.
• Birthplace: Eugene,
Oregon
• Degree: B.S. University of
Oregon
• Age: 29

18. 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

19. 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

20. Lynn Jurich
• Role: Co-Founder & CEO
of Sunrun
• Quote: The way to make
the biggest difference is
to change mainstream
behavior.
• Birthplace: San Francisco,
California
• Degree: M.B.A. Stanford
University
• Age: 37

21. Travis Kalanick
• Role: Founder & CEO
of Uber
• Quote: Uber is efficiency
with elegance on top.
• Net worth: $6B
• Birthplace: Los Angeles,
California
• Degree: B.S. University of
California, Los Angeles
• Age: 39

22. Gary Kelly
• Role: CEO of Southwest
Airlines
• Quote: We have to be
on our toes and
compete with
everybody.
• Degree: B.B.A.
University of Texas

23. Jack Ma
• Role: Founder & Chairman
of Alibaba Group
• Quote: You should learn
from your competitor, but
never copy.
• Net worth: $24.1B
• Birthplace: Hangzhou, Zheji
ang, China
• Degree: CEO
Program. Cheung Kong
Graduate School of Business
(CKGSB)
• Age: 51

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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, Trans
vaal, South Africa
• Degree: B.S. University of
Pennsylvania
• Age: 44

27. 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. Universi
ty of Chicago
• Age: 48

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Sundar Pichai
• Role: CEO of Google
• Quote: The right moral
compass is trying hard to
think about what
customers want.
• Birthplace: Madurai, Tami
l Nadu, India
• Degree: M.B.A. The
University of Pennsylvania
• Age: 43

32. Kevin Plank
• Role: Founder & CEO of
Under Armour
• Quote: Brand is not a
product. It's an idea.
A theory. A meaning. It's
how you carry yourself.
• Net worth: $3.9B
• Birthplace: Kensington,
Maryland
• Degree: B.B.A. University
of Maryland
• Age: 43

33. Carlos Rodriguez
• Role: CEO of Automatic
Data Processing
• Quote: There's a huge
culture of learning here.
• Birthplace: Havana,
Cuba
• Degree: M.B.A. Harvard
University
• Age: 51

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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, Belaru
s
• Degree: B.S. Mount Ida
College
• Age: 40

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

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