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 MYCOSKIEWhen 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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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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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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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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Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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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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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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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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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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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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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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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 incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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