Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions. "

Related Quotes:

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

" Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get. "

" The first thing I ever sold online was stolen. "

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

" 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. "

" A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.' "

" Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call 'competitors' - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it. "

" 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. "

" I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform. "

" I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear. "

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

" There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that. "

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

" It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store. "

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

" When I go through hundreds of applications from people who all have very similar-sounding experience, cover letters are the only glimpse I have into a person's personality. "

" 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. "

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

" Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder. "

" I think there are very few brands with a person's point of view behind them. "

" 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. "

" I built a huge profitable business with no debt. "

" I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free. "

" My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life. "

" Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing. "

" 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. "

" I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things. "

" You are not a special snowflake. "

" Only the paranoid survive. "

" When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets. "