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The biography series shares hard-won insight from extraordinary achievers whose paths have inspired Oprah—and countless others.
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Jay-Z, Rapper and Entertainment Mogul

"A huge lesson for me was that if I was gonna be successful, I had to be successful as myself—I couldn't be successful doing what other people were doing. I had to do what I believed in and what felt real to me and felt true to me, because the worst thing to be is successful as someone else."

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