Tyra Banks

"Learning to trust my own instincts. When I was pitching America's Next Top Model as a show concept, people didn't get it. They said, 'It's a show about models, so what?' I said, 'No, it's a show about girls who are outside society's standard definition of beauty.' I could've easily given up, but I stuck with it and didn't let it bring me down. I knew I had something special."