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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. "
Sophia Amoruso
Wondering
Want
Been
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" I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to. "
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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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" You are not a special snowflake. "
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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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Power
" I had 60,000 friends on MySpace. "
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Had
Myspace
" Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success. "
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Kind
Think
" As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good. "
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Care
" Lots of people are going to sell clothes online. But not a lot of people have built a brand, a living, breathing brand that people feel like they're part of. "
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Feel
" 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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Opportunity
Teach
Entrepreneur
" Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you. "
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Me
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" Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call 'competitors' - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it. "
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Old
Run
Men
" 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. "
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God
Mom
Parents
" I make money, and I don't need money. "
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Money
Make
" I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you. "
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Advice
Grow
You
" I built a huge profitable business with no debt. "
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Business
Profitable
Huge
" 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. "
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Know
Business
Surprise
" A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes. "
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Words
Big
Magic
" The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money. "
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Than
" 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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Live
People
Want
" Don't you dare alter your inner freak. "
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Alter
Your
You
" 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. "
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T-Shirt
Show
I Can
" 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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Digital
Paper
Losing
" 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. "
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Unique
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" If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it. "
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World
Still
" I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do. "
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Too Much
Too
Time
" 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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Good
High
Story
" My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them. "
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Philosophy
Things
You
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You
Shoes
" If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK! "
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Want
Years