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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.

Blake Mycoskie

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
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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Dream Entrepreneur Important
[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
TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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Company Shoes Toms
The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you’re doing.
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Advantage Bigger Employee
The goal isn’t how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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Goal Helping People
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
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Firsts Important Step
A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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Community Leader Movement
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
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
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.
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Doors Memorable Stories
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
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

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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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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