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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When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
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The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
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The more you give, the more you live.
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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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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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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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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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The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters…You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
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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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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 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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I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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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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Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
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