Actress, singer, entrepreneur, and producer Selena Gomez shared some sage advice from her close friend and fellow billionaire Taylor Swift at Fortune ’s Most Powerful Women conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. “She said: ‘If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room,'” Gomez told Fortune ‘s Ellie Austin. Gomez added that she surrounds herself with “really incredible people” and is not afraid to ask questions.

Gomez rose to fame at a young age. After acting on Barney & Friends at age 10, she became a Disney star on her own hit show Wizards of Waverly Place , which wrapped in 2012 . More recently, she’s starred in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and in 2020 founded her beauty brand Rare Beauty, a favorite among Gen Z .

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