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.
BLAKE MYCOSKIEI 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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When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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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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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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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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The more you give, the more you live.
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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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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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[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.
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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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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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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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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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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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