Oprah Winfrey: In Her Own Words

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The public's appetite for all things Oprah Winfrey has waned little since her Chicago TV debut in 1983. Known as a self-help guru and the "Queen of All Media," Oprah has been shining light on social issues and encouraging fans to "live your best life" for more than 30 years, revolutionizing her corner of the entertainment industry in the process. Winfrey's unprecedented influence and celebrity often overshadow her indisputable entrepreneurial prowess and business acumen. Even though Oprah has stated that she wouldn't consider herself a businesswoman, her ever-expanding media empire and record-breaking multibillion-dollar fortune say otherwise.

Oprah Winfrey: In Her Own Words provides a unique look into the wisdom and thought processes of one of the most adored, respected, and powerful women in the world.

Fortune has called O: The Oprah Magazine, now in its 22nd year of publication (now as a digital entity), "the most successful startup ever in the industry." In its infancy, the magazine became a highly profitable addition to the Hearst portfolio, amassing ever-increasing ad sales and a paid circulation larger than industry giants such as Vogue and Martha Stewart Living. Over the last several years, her media holdings and interests have also included an award-winning movie production studio, a satellite radio channel, the cable-TV company Oxygen Media, and the burgeoning OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

Few entrepreneurs have been savvy enough to leverage their resources with the foresight Oprah has demonstrated in her decades-long career. Oprah's key asset, developed over the course of decades, is herself: a brand she controls by shrewdly choosing partnerships and endorsement deals and not kowtowing to convention. At the outset of her career, Oprah decided to start a company rather than take the conventional talent-for-hire path. She, along with a few close executives, took her initial TV success and grew it into a multibillion-dollar media conglomerate, with one woman at the helm. Her influence in the marketplace is unprecedented. Just look at the long-term impact her recommendations and endorsements have had in the fields of consumer products and book publishing, among others.

Newly updated and repackaged from its original publication in 2016 as Own It: Oprah Winfrey in Her Own Words, this book collects Oprahs most insightful quotations, centered around her media career, life lessons, entrepreneurship, and remarkable personal story. Oprah's next venture is unknown, but its success, like her other triumphs, depends on Oprahand the self-reliance, values, and vision on which she has built her empire.

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PRAISE FOR AGATE B2'S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES, IN THEIR OWN WORDS:

"[I, Steve] is the same treatment given such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Hitchens and offers Jobs's views on life, death, technology and design, among other topics.Timothy R. Smith, The Washington Post

"[Impatient Optimist] is like eating salted peanuts: Once you start reading, it's hard to stop."Anne Fisher, CNN Money

"A new book revealing many of Steve Jobs' most illuminating quotes..."Lance Whitney, CNET

"A 160-page collection of quotes from the most iconic product pitchman since P.T. Barnum."Ben Popper, The New York Observer BetaBeat blog

"A much better Jobs product is coming soon. Itll entertain you for hours, and noit is not a Jobs-branded iPad or anything similarly high-tech. It is, friends, an old-fashioned book!"Hillary Reinsberg, Mogulite

"Inspirational reading pleasure."Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web

"The kind of book that you read, think about, and then pass on to a friend or colleague...I learned a lot about Jobs thinking process."Allen Stern, CenterNetworks

"[Boy Billionaire] reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who has arguably created one of the world's largest companiesand who is also one of the world's greatest social connectors."Strategy Driven

"A short work to be dipped into for nuggets of business (or law firm) wisdom..."Michael Roach, Law Technology News

Author Bio

Anjali Becker is an editor living in Jersey City, New Jersey. Jeanne Engelmann is an editor living outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.