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What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
Debbi Fields
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Debbi Fields
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 18
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There is always competition. Whatever you do, there will be competition, and you have to decide how you’re going to play. For me, I had to be the very best. I had to be the very best. Because, if I was not the very best, I would end up being number two.
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I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.
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I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
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I'm not a what if. I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.
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If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.
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The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.
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I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.
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When somebody says, You can't, I say, Why not?
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The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.
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Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.
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Being good enough never is.
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Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
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No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.
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If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!
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The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have..., I wouldn't be here today.
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Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.
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I feel like any time I'm doing what I love, my big pay-off is watching somebody else be the receiver.
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There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking.
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What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself.
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We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share. You want to look inside your heart and your soul, and you want to tap into the one thing you love to do. Develop it. Share it. Nurture it. You were meant to have that gift.
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