The 10 best pieces of advice billionaires have given during commencement speeches

Imagination helps us empathize

British novelist, screenwriter and producer, J.K. Rowling, spoke at Harvard University in 2008. In her commencement speech, Rowling focused on imagination. She told graduates that imagination, in its most transformative and revelatory capacity, is the power that enable us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Project yourself into any successful situation

Leonard Lauder, American businessman and chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies Inc., spoke at Connecticut College in 1989. When Lauder spoke to graduates, he said that fantasizing and being able to project yourself into any successful situation is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.