When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
BLAKE MYCOSKIEThe most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
More Blake Mycoskie Quotes
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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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Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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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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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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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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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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I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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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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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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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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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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A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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