Being smart is one thing, but to impact the world one must take risks, state Controller Steve Westly said Monday at Mission San Jose High School, a campus whose students' high test scores and grades get many of them into the nation's top universities.
Urging students to "think big," take calculated risks and challenge people who say their ideas are impossible to achieve, Westly stressed the value of straying from the comfortable path.
Had he decided to play it safe his entire life, Westly never would have left his teaching position at Stanford University — which came with a hefty salary — to work for a startup company, selling items out of a garage. Today, that company, eBay, allows millions of people worldwide to buy and sell items online daily.
And when he decided to leave eBay six years ago to work in the public sector, he understood that again he would be leaving a comfortable job for work that offers less pay. But he accepted the trade-off.
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