Corner Office Q&A With Arianna Huffington: Her Advice For Aspiring Media Moguls

1:00 pm, December 7th | by Amy Tennery

Arianna Huffington is a woman who needs no introduction (but here’s one anyway). The Editor-in-Chief of AOL Huffington Post Media Group, Huffington is one of the most powerful women in media today (and she’s the top ranked online editor on Mediaite’s Power Grid). Huffington took some time out this week to talk to us about her life behind-the-scenes — and to share the advice she’d give a woman who wants her job one day.

What advice would you give to a woman who wants your job one day?

First, know your core principles and follow your dreams, no matter what. And second, embrace failure. We sometimes think that successful people have succeeded at everything, that everything happened perfectly in their lives. But there is not a human being in the world who has not had failures. And most of the most successful people have had spectacular failures. Failure builds up resiliency, which is a key ingredient of success.

And one other thing: wait a few years at least before taking my job — I like it!

The one thing no one would guess about you is:

My iPod playlist is loaded with country music.

Before noon, you’ve already:

Spoken with our HuffPost editors and reporters about the day’s stories, had a couple of cappuccinos (always with a green straw), and texted my daughters.

What’s the worst business advice you’ve ever heard?

Prior to the Huffington Post’s launch in 2005, I was repeatedly told the Internet was a young person’s game.

If you were stuck on a desert island, what three items would you want with you?

The complete works of William Shakespeare, because I could read and reread them and never tire of them. My BlackBerry, so I could tweet about island life. And an alarm clock — just so I could enjoy not setting it and deciding to sleep in every day.

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Gloves F. Donahue

Her mama was Eva Gabor?
goldmind

Yes…she is a moGhoul indeed. But has little or nothing of substance, to say. Her world is riddled with zombies (those who follow her career), and left wing elitists who mold those zombies. If she were a fire hydrant, and I a dog…well you fill in the blanks.
Anonymous

tweet at @firetommyxopher to let you voice be heard
Anonymous

Well, she certainly made her way in the world the old fashioned way! I believe it’s called the “oldest profession.”
goldmind

Titzy, it is also a much nobler profession then media. Let’s not slander those hard working ladies of the night…or compare them to this media piglet.
Anonymous

I think you mistake her for the bimbos on FauxNoos.
Anonymous

yuk
Lori

Meow, Meow.
Anonymous

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LJB57

I think we already know, she’s in reality “Ilsa she Wolf of the SS”
LJB57

Arianna how you say…she goes through a lot of Knee-Pads.
She orders them by the dozen.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

Shes a psychologically damaged woman who had her moderate republican politician husband leave her for another guy. Then she did a political 180% and became a radical liberal.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

That was the green straw reference. Green Acres. She played a cameo as a fence post in one episode.
Anonymous

I always find it weird how you putrid tehadists are always quick to call the liberals vile while all you think about and psychologically project are your own aberrant peccadilloes.
Anonymous

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goldmind

As a former liberal…vile, not…poison…yes.
http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

“What advice would you give to a woman who wants your job one day?”

Marry into oil money and have your husband leave you for another man. Then use that money that you got out of the divorce settlement with your gay ex-husband to start a blog where you don’t pay any of the writers.
Anonymous

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