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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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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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When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
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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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The biggest challenge is people thinking you know everything going on in your company, because you're at the top of it and you started it. But the thing is, nobody knows everything about anything.
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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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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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I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.
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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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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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I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.
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I think there are times when I can be a good thing.
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You belong wherever you want to belong.
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I'm telling you that you don't have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.
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The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.
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