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10 Rules of Success by Oprah Winfrey.





10 RULES OF SUCCESS

1. Rather than overwhelming yourself with the big picture, ask yourself what the next right move is.

2. When you see an opportunity, take it.

3. Forgive yourself for your past mistakes.

4. Never stop improving yourself.

5. Go as hard as you can.

6. Don’t just dream — believe.

7. Remember that people are more alike than they are different.

8. Find your purpose in life.

9. Keep yourself grounded and centered.

10. Try to remember that everything will be OK

Who is Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey (January 29, 1954), or simply Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011.better source needed] Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only black billionaire, and the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.


Philanthropy Winfrey visits evacuees from New Orleans temporarily sheltered at the Reliant center in Houston following Hurricane Katrina

In 2004, Winfrey became the first black person to rank among the 50 most generous Americans and she remained among the top 50 until 2010.By 2012, she had given away about $400 million to educational causes.

As of 2012, Winfrey had also given over 400 scholarships to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Winfrey was the recipient of the first Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Emmy Awards for services to television and film. To celebrate two decades on national TV, and to thank her employees for their hard work, Winfrey took her staff and their families (1,065 people in total) on vacation to Hawaii in the summer of 2006.

In 2013, Winfrey donated $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom later that same year.


South Africa

In 2004, Winfrey and her team filmed an episode of her show, "Oprah's Christmas Kindness", in which Winfrey travelled to South Africa to bring attention to the plight of young children affected by poverty and AIDS. During the 21-day trip, Winfrey and her crew visited schools and orphanages in poverty-stricken areas, and distributed Christmas presents to 50,000 children, with dolls for the girls and soccer balls for the boys, and school supplies. Throughout the show, Winfrey appealed to viewers to donate money to Oprah's Angel Network for poor and AIDS-affected children in Africa. From that show alone, viewers around the world donated over $7 million. Winfrey invested $40 million and some of her time establishing the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Henley on Klip south of Johannesburg, South Africa. The school set over 22 acres, opened in January 2007 with an enrollment of 150 pupils (increasing to 450) and features state-of-the-art classrooms, computer and science laboratories, a library, a theatre, and a beauty salon. Nelson Mandela praised Winfrey for overcoming her own disadvantaged youth to become a benefactor for others. Critics considered the school elitist and unnecessarily luxurious. Winfrey rejected the claims, saying: "If you are surrounded by beautiful things and wonderful teachers who inspire you, that beauty brings out the beauty in you." Winfrey, who has no surviving biological children, described maternal feelings towards the girls at Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.Winfrey teaches a class at the school via satellite.


There is no one right way to achieve success. There is only your way

When you think back on the work you're doing and the life you're living, what does the end goal look like? What does "success" mean to you?

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Source :Wikipedia, NBC.


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  2. ^ Jump up to:a b "Oprah Winfrey Biography and Interview". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. Winfrey has said in interviews that 'my name had been chosen from the Bible. My Aunt Ida had chosen the name, but nobody really knew how to spell it, so it went down as "Orpah" on my birth certificate, but people didn't know how to pronounce it, so they put the "P" before the "R" in every place else other than the birth certificate. On the birth certificate it is Orpah, but then it got translated to Oprah, so here we are.'

  3. ^ "Oprah Winfrey signs with King World Productions for new three-year contract to continue as host and producer of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" through 2010–2011" (Press release). King World Productions. August 4, 2004. Archived from the original on February 10, 2007. Retrieved September 24, 2009.

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  6. ^ Denenberg, Dennis; Roscoe, Lorraine (September 1, 2016). 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (2nd Revised ed.). Millbrook Press. ISBN 9781512413298.

  7. ^ Miller, Matthew (May 6, 2009). "The Wealthiest Black Americans". Forbes. Retrieved August 26, 2010.

  8. ^ "Oprah Winfrey buys $14 million ski chalet in Colorado". The Telegraph. February 4, 2016.


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