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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.

Blake Mycoskie

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
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
I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
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Inspirational Quotations Surround
Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
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Being Thankful Earth
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
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
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
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
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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Country Greatness Motivational
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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Boundaries Doors Stories
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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Motivational Needs Today
The more you give, the more you live.
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Abundance Baby True Love
With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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Company Technology Today
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
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
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
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
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
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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Craigslist Entrepreneur Thinking
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
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
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
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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People Stress Together

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