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Compete with yourself, not with others.

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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
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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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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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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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I think there are times when I can be a good thing.
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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'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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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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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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I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.
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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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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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Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.
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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results
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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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I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.
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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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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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When you think about people, you give them power.
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You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.
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