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“I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.”
“You want to know what four words I probably hate the most? 'That's not my job.'”
“The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.”
“We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not”
“Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist.”
“There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.”
“Only the paranoid survive.”
“If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!”
“A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'”
“I love mirrors.”
“What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.”
“Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.”
“I've probably spent more time than any other brand reading every last comment. To listen to people the way you're able to online is very powerful.”
“A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.”
“If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.”
“could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.”
“Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.”
“Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.”
“In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.”
“There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that.”