A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
BLAKE MYCOSKIEVogue 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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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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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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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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.
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When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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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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The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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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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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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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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[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.
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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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I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.
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