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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

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
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
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 more you give, the more you live.
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Abundance Baby True Love
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
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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Giving Jobs Team
I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
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Once Thinking Travel
I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
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Country Greatness Motivational
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 you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Amazing Giving Most Partners
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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Customer Educational Loyal Passion
[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
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
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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Complicated Facts Opposites
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People

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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