The path to success in business is littered with advice -- good, and bad. With so much at stake, whose tips should you take? We asked eight leaders in their field: what’s the best advice you’ve been given?

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Jerry Storch, Chairman and CEO of Toys R Us says he was counseled to take daily stock –- of himself. “Stare at yourself in the mirror, and say: ‘Do I respect that person? And will I be proud of what I’ve done, what he’s done?’ And act appropriately”, he told "Off The Cuff."

“I’ve been around many rich people in my life. I don’t think I’ve learned anything from them. I think most of them are highly tense, anxious individuals who have not shared with me the great wisdom that I’m getting from people from different walks of life, sometimes much humbler."

That’s Oliver Stone, talking to “Off the Cuff” about some of the wealthy people who bankroll his movies.

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He recently sat down with “Off the Cuff” and was blunt, outrageous and controversial -- the cantankerous filmmaker we’ve come to know over the years and who has brought us classics such as “Wall Street.” Now in his late ‘60s, Stone – one of Hollywood’s most original storytellers, or an untempered conspiracy theorist, depending on your view – remains as rebellious as ever.

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re the CEO of a major corporation. The job is demanding and your schedule is grueling. But you have a salary to compensate for all your hard work. So how would you spend your executive salary? Yachts? Vacation homes? Golf?

By day, the chief executives featured in our “Off the Cuff” series, run some of the most high-profile U.S. companies. But what they do off the clock, and what they value most may surprise you.

David Karp built his first business at 11 years old. It wasn’t a lemonade stand.

Instead, he designed websites for his clients, years before he could drive or legally drink in a bar with them. Then in 2007, at 21, Karp founded Tumblr, the blogging platform and social networking website. Tumblr now hosts more than 85 million blogs, which in turn receive more than 18 billion page views per month.

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Being a boy wonder in business has its challenges though, as he said during an “Off The Cuff” interview. “Just the idea that literally this 13-year-old kid was asking for a contract…sending out an invoice and jumping on the phone …it terrified me. There were moments where I would have my dad call and pretend to be me because I knew I sounded like a kid on the phone.”