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When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

Blake Mycoskie

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 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
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 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
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
Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
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Fuel Future Giving Our
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
[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
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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Boundaries Doors Stories
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
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way

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