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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
Knowledge
Sophia
Experience
Gain
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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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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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When you think about people, you give them power.
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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'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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Compete with yourself, not with others.
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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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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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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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I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.
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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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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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Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.
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It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
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I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.
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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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I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.
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You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.
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Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back
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Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.
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