25 super-successful people share their best career advice for 20-somethings

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Marissa Mayer

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Yahoo! president and CEO Marissa Mayer.

If you're young and your career is in its early days, you've likely been privy to plenty of career truisms and clichés.

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But if "follow your passion," "give 110%," and "be true to yourself" just aren't cutting it for you anymore, perhaps advice like, "don't work too hard" and "relax" are more up your alley.

These successful people have offered some of the best - and oftentimes unconventional - advice for people in their 20s:

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