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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

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students
A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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Community Leader Movement
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
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
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
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
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
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
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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Giving Jobs Team
The more you give, the more you live.
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Abundance Baby True Love
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
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
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
When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Amazing Giving Most Partners
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

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