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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.

Blake Mycoskie

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 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
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students
Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
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Exercise Joy Volunteer
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
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
[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
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
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
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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Dream Entrepreneur Important
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
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
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
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

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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