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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

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
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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Article Feed Interesting Magazine Vogue
The more you give, the more you live.
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Abundance Baby True Love
When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.
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Buying Community Educational
Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Communication Form Stories
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 incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Amazing Giving Most Partners
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
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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Motivational Real School
The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
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Bottles Important Wine
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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Boundaries Doors Stories
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 Jobs Team
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
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
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

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