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[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

Blake Mycoskie

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Amazing Giving Most Partners
I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
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Inspirational Quotations Surround
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
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
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
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
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
[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.
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Employee Pay Want
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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Dream Entrepreneur Important
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
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Giving Marketer Way
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
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
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
Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Communication Form Stories
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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Company Technology Today
A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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Community Leader Movement
I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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Once Thinking Travel
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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Advantage Bigger Employee
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
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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Doors Memorable Stories
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
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
Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters…You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
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Customer Educational Loyal Passion
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

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