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I don’t think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

Blake Mycoskie

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
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Giving Marketer Way
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life – like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
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Careers Sharks White
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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Complicated Facts Opposites
Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
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Motivational Obstacle Success
Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.
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Dream Entrepreneur Important
Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn’t scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I’d love to take you to lunch.
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Ideas Love Lunch People Scare
The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you’re doing.
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Advantage Bigger Employee
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.
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Grateful Important People
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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Inspirational Life Passion
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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Doors Memorable Stories
Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Communication Form Stories
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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Doe Feel Good Giving
Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don’t let technology enslave you.
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Notebook Simple Technology

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