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" When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it. "

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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. "

Sophia Amoruso

Fashion

You

Power

" 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. "

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

Sophia Amoruso

Ladders

Life

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal. "

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

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

" 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've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand. "

Sophia Amoruso

Business

Creativity

" Failure is your invention. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sophia Amoruso

Unique

Understanding

" 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. "

Sophia Amoruso

Customer

Great

" I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer. "

" I had 60,000 friends on MySpace. "

" 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. "

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

" I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing. "

" 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. "