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Oprah Winfrey
Born in 1954 into poverty in Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey overcame abuse and discrimination to reach the pinnacle of the media industry. She kept her talk show at number one in America for twenty-five years, founded Harpo Productions, and diversified into the OWN network, a magazine, and a book club, becoming the first African-American female billionaire. She is the pioneering embodiment of converting a personal brand into a business asset.
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Oprah Winfrey's Other Quotes
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
You become what you believe.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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