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When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

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Blake Mycoskie
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 26
Entrepreneur
Texas
United States
Incorporate
Attract
Partners
Amazing
Business
Giving

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Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
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When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.
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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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The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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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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Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
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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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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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If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.
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