Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
BLAKE MYCOSKIE[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
More Blake Mycoskie Quotes
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A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
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I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.
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TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I’m doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I’m doing, stores from all over started calling.
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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.
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Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.
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Giving does not just feel good, but it’s really, really good for business, and it’s good for your personal brand.
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When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger – something that matters.
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When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, […] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else’s.
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[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.
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