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When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
Experience
Gain
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Perspective
Failure
Possibility
Longer
Goal
Knowledge
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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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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 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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Compete with yourself, not with others.
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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 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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My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
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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 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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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 stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.
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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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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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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 think there are times when I can be a good thing.
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