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So what word of advice do you have for some of these students who are now picking their future career path?
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>> And my advice to all of you guys is you are a CEO. The moment you graduate and
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you're looking for your job, think about yourself as a CEO. The CEO of you, your
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own professional services organization that you are going to sell to all these companies in your career who may
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technically employ you, but ultimately you're in control of your own set of services. So that leads to I think the
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penultimate point I would say is you're always learning. I'm reminded of the
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statue of Ben Franklin where he's sitting there on the bench right around the corner from the warden school and
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one of the things that he said long ago which still strikes me is the doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of
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our own ignorance. I know some things. I've been around for a long time but there's a lot I don't know and learning
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is something you got to constantly do. And then the final point would be don't
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be afraid to take risk but be thoughtful about it. Right? And so there will be some times when you can take financial
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risk and other times that you can't depending on your family situation. But one thing I would say do not risk and
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this goes back to the story of why I chose Circle is don't risk your integrity. Go to places that you're
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going to be proud that you work for and that ultimately want to do the right thing because that's the only thing you
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can take with you to the grave is your integrity. [Music]