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The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
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The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.
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My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
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Well advice people have told me that is that, If people aren't suing you, you haven't made it, which I don't necessarily believe but with greater success comes greater responsibility and being one of the few female entrepreneurs who I think has been as public as I have been, you're definitely under a spotlight. It's difficult to manage.
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When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
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Compete with yourself, not with others.
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To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool.
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Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.
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When you think about people, you give them power.
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Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.
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You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.
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You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.
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Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.
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What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.
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I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.
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