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It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
Stubbornness
Entrepreneur
Succeed
Takes
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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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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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I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.
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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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I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.
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Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back
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There's so many moving pieces, but to be as public as I've become and to be at the front and take the brunt of anything that happens is a huge responsibility, but also something that takes some time to step into and that has been really challenging.
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When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
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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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You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.
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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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Compete with yourself, not with others.
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Our lives are so visual now, with social media and we're constantly shifting gears. Nobody requires a table of contents. Nobody requires that one page leads to the next page, we're okay being surprised by things that are eclectic.
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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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I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.
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No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.
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I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.
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I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.
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If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.
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I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.
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