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" Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out. "

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" The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name. "

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" I don't read fashion blogs all that much. I do read magazines, and I trust my friends' opinions, even though we all dress very differently. "

" It's a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet. "

" I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now because in L.A., a Porsche is like a Honda. It was just that I could pay that much money for a car and drive it off the lot. "

" It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food. "

" Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book. "

" I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to. "

" If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it. "

" Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go. "

" You want to know what four words I probably hate the most? 'That's not my job.' "

" 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. "

" I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress. "

" It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do. "

" At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change. "

" Only the paranoid survive. "

" Money looks better in the bank than on your feet. "

" My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them. "

" Music is such a big part of my life. "

" Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition. "

" If you look at my Instagram, girls are just beating down my door for tips or a job or mentorship. I can't hire every single one of them. My story is one thing that gives them hope. It's an unconventional story with anecdotes, commonsense advice and a big dose of permission to figure things out for yourself. "

" I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks. "

" The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money. "

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" Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not. "