The Best Advice I Ever Got

In our lives, we’re probably given more than a million words of advice. Almost everyone feels free to dispense it, even if we don’t ask for it, but much of it is trivial and soon forgotten. The advice that resonates and sticks is worth sharing.

We asked a wide range of prominent people about the best overall advice or the best career advice they’ve ever received or learned. Here’s what they told us.

Mazie K. Hirono, U.S. Senator

Photo: Courtesy of Mazie Hirono

Take risks

“The best advice I’ve ever received was to take risks. I learned this from my mother, not through her words, but through her actions. Rather than suffer through a terrible marriage in Japan, she risked everything to seek a better life for her family in Hawaii.

“I continue to be inspired by the courage it took for her to plan our escape in secret and head into the unknown.”

Read the entire piece here: http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/Hawaii-Business/July-2013/The-Best-Advice-I-Ever-Got/