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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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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
Anywhere
Realized
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Actually
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Belonged
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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'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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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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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 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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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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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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I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.
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Compete with yourself, not with others.
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You belong wherever you want to belong.
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My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
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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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When you think about people, you give them power.
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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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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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I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.
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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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I think there are times when I can be a good thing.
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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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