The job taught Nassetta, the 60-year-old CEO of Hilton Worldwide — a multinational hospitality company with a $38.86 billion market capitalization, as of Tuesday morning — more than just how hotels operate, he says.
"Young people have so much access and information to knowledge, but you don't want to confuse that with experience."
In contrast, some of his friends spent their 20s and 30s rising through the career ranks to powerful positions — and quickly flaming out, he says.
On finding help in unexpected places: 'To this day ... you just don't know what you don't know'I like to think I work hard, I'm well educated, I'm reasonably smart.
But even to this day, and certainly when I was in my 20s and 30s trying to figure things out, you just don't know what you don't know.