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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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Sophia Amoruso
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 20
Businessperson
San Diego
California
Sophia Christina Amoruso
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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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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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That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.
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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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When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
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It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur
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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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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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I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.
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When you think about people, you give them power.
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Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening
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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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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'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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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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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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You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.
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I think there are times when I can be a good thing.
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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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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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