Quotes by Blake Mycoskie - Page 2

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
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Risk
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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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Real
School
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The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
Blake Mycoskie / Entrepreneur
Expanding
New Business
Toms
Business Model
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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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Inspirational
Life
Entrepreneur
Passion
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You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.
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Soul Mate
Toms
Equivalent
Hear People
Mate
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We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.
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Believe
Entrepreneur
Waiting
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Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
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Exercise
Inspire
Joy
Purchasing
Purchasing Power
Share
Stories
Volunteer
Bring
Consumer
Experiences
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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
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I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.
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Fulfilled
Life Believe I Believe
Life Believe Living
Dedicate
Mission
Pursuing
Recognize
Truly
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I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.
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Honestly
Philanthropy
Toms
Blend
No Desire
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The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.
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Community
Growing Up
Helping
Local Community
Sibling
Parents
Local
Serve
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I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing.
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Description
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial
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It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
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Life Good Society
Be Happy
Happiest
Happiest People
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I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success.
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Principles
Toms
Guided
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I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
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Motivational
Careers
Past
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Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
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Vacation
Compensation
Focused
Toms
Work Out
Talented
Out Here
Potential
Sign
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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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Doe
Interesting
Vogue Magazine
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One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.
Blake Mycoskie / Entrepreneur
Boards
Equity
Grateful
Usual
Venture
Venture Capital
Beholden
Capital
Sell
Route
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A lot of people like the idea of companies being socially involved in their community, but if you want big companies to get involved in social issues, what makes you think they're going to come down on your side?
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Big Companies
Social Issues
Community Your People
Community People Your
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People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.
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Ideas
People
Shoes
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If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.
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Contributing
Dollars
Reasonable
Vote
Indirectly
Obligatory
Problematic
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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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Ideas
Lunch
Who I Am
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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.
Blake Mycoskie / Entrepreneur
Careers
Diving
Doors
Influential
Sharks
White
Life Great Your
Life Great People
Earnings
Enrich
Experiences
Expose
Spend
Instead
Open Doors
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I never thought I would be in a position like this, where my words and experiences are now inspiring others to follow suit. It's challenging at times, but I can only look forward to the future of business and philanthropy.
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Inspiring
Philanthropy
Suit
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A very big passion of mine and that of the people that run our production is finding factories that have fair labor practices and treating them more like partners in our family than people just who are going to produce for us.
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Factories
Labor
Partners
Produce
Fair
Finding
Mine
Practices
Treating
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As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
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Block
Hiring
Pressured
Stumbling
Good Experience Business
Entrepreneurs
Everyone Else
Executive
Experience Business Good
Hire
Stumbling Block
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People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
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Argentina
Toms
Truth Is
Village
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I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.
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Defining
Giving
Half
Making Money
Moments
Toms
Life Time Money
Spend
Realized
Same Time
Second
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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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Doors
Memorable
Stories
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If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
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Opportunity
Ideas
Taken
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When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
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Aspect
Belief
Disagree
Engagement
Public Speaking
Sincere
Toms
Endorse
Invitation
Mission
Speaking
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I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.
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Bronze
Handmade
Journal
Leather
Paper
Cover
Lion
Replace
Runs
San
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Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.
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Giving
Ideas
Shoes
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Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
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Better Place
Investment
Venture
Success Time Best
Background
Contribute
Success Best Time
Important Step
Mission
Yearn
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Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.
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Cities
Dinner
Intimate
Lonely
Meaningful
Month
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I credit my grandmother for my sense of style. She was known for wearing bright, outrageous things because it made people happy and she thought it made her more approachable. When you wear a brightly colored shirt or pants, it shows you don't take yourself too seriously and it puts everyone around you at ease.
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Credit
Ease
Outrageous
Pants
Bright
Colored
Wearing
Puts
Shirt
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Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.
Blake Mycoskie / Entrepreneur
Morning
Crazy
Filled
Journal
Obstacles
Perspective
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Stressed
Life Work Time
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Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Charity
Customers
Educational
Feel Good
Giving
Strategy
Toms
Advertisement
Wearing
Mention
Viable
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Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.
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Decision
Mean
People
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The most important step of all is the first step. Start something! What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people? You owe it to the world ot act. Or maybe it will help only a few people: The same advice applies. If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.
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Motivational
Ideas
People
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