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" If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it. "
Sophia Amoruso
Man
World
Still
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" I think I've just gotten really good at accessorizing personally. I've always been good at accessorizing other people, and intellectually, I've known how to accessorize, but I was pretty minimal personally - although I was wearing a ton of rings. "
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" I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform. "
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" Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration. "
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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. "
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" Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go. "
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" You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.' "
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" A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you. "
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" It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it. "
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" A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description. "
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" Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less. "
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" You are not a special snowflake. "
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" You want to know what four words I probably hate the most? 'That's not my job.' "
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" My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them. "
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" I built a huge profitable business with no debt. "
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" 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. "
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" It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall. "
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" Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you. "
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" I love mirrors. "
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" In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be. "
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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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