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Blake Mycoskie Inspirational Quotes (33)

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Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I'm doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I'm doing, stores from all over started calling.
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Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company.
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TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.
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We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.
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No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.
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The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
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Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
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When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
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I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
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Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement they'll say a friend told them our story.
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My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.
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One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
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I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.
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With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
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Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
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What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.
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If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.
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