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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.

Blake Mycoskie

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 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
Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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Communication Form Stories
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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Boundaries Doors Stories
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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Doe Feel Good Giving
TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.
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Focus Giving Way
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
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
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
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
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Backpack Identity Students
When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Amazing Giving Most Partners
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
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
[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
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Giving Heard People
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

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