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If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.

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Blake Mycoskie
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 26
Entrepreneur
Texas
United States
Wonderful
Whatever
Helping
Persons
Person
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Something
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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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With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.
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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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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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Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
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[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.
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When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
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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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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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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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I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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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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If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
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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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The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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