[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.
BLAKE MYCOSKIEInstead 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.
More Blake Mycoskie Quotes
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Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
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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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With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
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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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A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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The most important step of all is the first step. Start 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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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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TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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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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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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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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Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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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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