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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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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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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 belong wherever you want to belong.
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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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Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.
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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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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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My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
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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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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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Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results
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I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.
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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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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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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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