Postcards

How the power players do it - by Fortune senior editor at large Patricia Sellers

Power Point: Reach for long-term happiness

September 23, 2008: 6:36 PM ET

"If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a week, go on a honeymoon. If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune. But, if you want to be happy for a lifetime, help other people."

- Ann Moore, chairman and CEO of Time Inc. (Fortune's parent), shared this bit of wisdom this morning when she was honored by the Young Women's Leadership Foundation. This advice comes, she said, from a rabbi who wrote a letter to the editors of Real Simple. Moore figured it was well-suited for the do-good audience in attendance.

The Young Women's Leadership Foundation, started by Ann Rubinstein Tisch, is a remarkable success story. Twelve years ago, she opened her first all-girls' school in East Harlem. Since then, 100% of the students there, year in and year out, have gone on to college. Tisch, who is married to Andrew Tisch of Loews Corp. (L) fame, has funded five schools in New York and Philadelphia via her foundation. She also has helped open five affiliate schools in the midwest, including the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, which Ann Moore and other participants of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit have supported.

Newark mayor Cory Booker was also honored at the breakfast. He's brainy and wildly charismatic. For a while, I've been hearing chatter that he could run for President someday. Based on what I saw this morning, I believe it.

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Pattie Sellers
Patricia Sellers
Senior Editor at Large, Fortune
Executive Director of MPW/Live Content, Time Inc.

Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.

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