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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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" Only the paranoid survive. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had 60,000 friends on MySpace. "

" 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. "

" Spell check exists for a reason. "

" 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 have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls. "

" A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes. "

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

" 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. "

" I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I make money, and I don't need money. "

" My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively. "

" I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do. "