Will You Be Good Looking, Rich And Smart In Your 50s? The Single Best Piece Of "Business" Advice I've Ever Received

By Sasha Poljak, CEO, Nimble Software Systems

As a 50-year old entrepreneur and business leader, I have achieved relative success in my professional and personal life.  I am content and ready to face, perhaps the most rewarding period because I know who I am, what I can, and will do. An advantage of being my age is that I simply experienced more than most of my colleagues in their twenties, thirties, or forties.  So, what was the most important advice I received to help me achieve the current state of satisfaction and excitement?

Life is full of choices and “forks in the road.” Most are ours to make and decide upon. One choice in life, however, none of us had a chance to make, is selecting who our parents are, what they are like and what sort of love, support and wisdom may we receive from them to help shape who we are later in life. Most of us get a lucky break at some point in our lives. My break came at birth; I was born to wonderful parents. 

It is not a surprise then that the most important piece of business advice came from my mother.  Being a female and a product of a post-World War II, Eastern European political and economic experiment, she has never had a chance to develop her own prosperous career. That has never stopped her to dream big and see life as clay ready to be shaped by individual interests, accomplishments, and priorities. 

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