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

Sophia Amoruso

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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
Knowledge
Sophia
Experience
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Perspective
Failure
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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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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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When you think about people, you give them power.
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One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.
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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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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 didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.
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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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You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!
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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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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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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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Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.
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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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Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back
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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'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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