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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?

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 surround myself with inspirational quotations.
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Inspirational Quotations Surround
The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
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Bottles Important Wine
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students
I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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Once Thinking Travel
[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
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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Careers Sharks White
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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Buying Community Educational
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
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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People Stress Together
The more you give, the more you live.
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Abundance Baby True Love
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
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
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
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
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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Article Feed Interesting Magazine Vogue

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