“My mother always said, ‘It doesn’t matter what other people think,’” DBE CEO & President, Veronica “Niki” Fielding, shares in Chief Executive Magazine. “But that didn’t quite ring true for me. I realized over time that it’s good to get others’ inputs but that before you make decisions, get really clear on what you believe, or hold to be correct. Use other people’s opinions to help shape, but not dictate, your own.”