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Business professionals would be wise to take advice from motivational speaker and philanthropist Chris Gardner.
The entrepreneur, investor and stockbroker — whose personal struggle to evolve from homeless father to successful businessman is documented in his memoir “The Pursuit of Happyness” — personifies determination. Look up the scene in the film version where Gardner, portrayed by Will Smith, gets hit by a car in New York City, loses his shoe in the street and proceeds to get to work…