Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
BLAKE MYCOSKIEIf 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.
More Blake Mycoskie Quotes
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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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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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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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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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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 you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others 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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With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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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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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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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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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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I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
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The more you give, the more you live.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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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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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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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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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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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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I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
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