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

Blake Mycoskie

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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Community Leader Movement
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
I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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Once Thinking Travel
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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Boundaries Doors Stories
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 in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
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Giving Marketer Way
The more you give, the more you live.
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Abundance Baby True Love
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students
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
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
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
With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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Company Technology Today
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
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
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
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 step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step

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