I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
BLAKE MYCOSKIEBe 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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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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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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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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The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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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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A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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