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A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

Blake Mycoskie

TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
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
[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
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
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
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
When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Amazing Giving Most Partners
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
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 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
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
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
Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
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Being Thankful Earth
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students

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