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" 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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" You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too. "

" 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 wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business. "

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

" Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration. "

" I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 work in silence. "

" The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes. "

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

" I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life. "

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

" EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics. "

" I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from. "

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

" Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation. "

" There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life. "