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 MYCOSKIEAllow 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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A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company.
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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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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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The more you give, the more you live.
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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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A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger – something that matters.
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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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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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Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
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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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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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Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
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