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" This morning, Dress for Success, the nonprofit that&amp;#x27;s dedicated to providing professional wardrobes and career development to women, hosted its annual Women Helping Women breakfast. This year, the event featured a panel discussion&amp;amp;#8212;hosted by Tai Beauchamp&amp;amp;#8212;with three entrepreneurial women: Essie Cosmetics founder Essie Weingarten, Gilt Groupe founder and head of strategic alliances Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, and founder and CEO of LearnVest.com Alexa von Tobel. The three accomplished women talked about how their started out&amp;amp;#8212;Weingarten revealed that she took her first batch of samples in 1981 and went straight to Las Vegas!&amp;amp;#8212;what they&amp;#x27;re up to next (Weingarten hinted at something involving &amp;quot;color&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;home&amp;quot;) and recounted fun anecdotes about starting their own businesses and all the challenges they faced along the way. My favorite bit? When Beauchamp asked them what the best advice they&amp;#x27;d ever received was. Here are their answers: Essie Weingarten: &amp;quot;Never take no for an answer. And there is never an obstacle&amp;amp;#8212;you just have to find your way around it.&amp;quot; Alexandra Wilkis Wilson: &amp;quot;Patience is a virtue,&amp;quot; her mother told her. And &amp;quot;work can actually be something you love. To realize you actually love your job&amp;amp;#8212;that&amp;#x27;s an amazing thing. It&amp;#x27;s not something I learned in business school, but it is possible.&amp;quot; Alexa von Tobel: &amp;quot;Get up on time. Dress the part. Show up with a smile. Attitude is everything.&amp;quot; What is the best advice you ever got? Tell us in the comments!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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