"Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?"
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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."
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"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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"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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"I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere."
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"Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future."
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"I surround myself with inspirational quotations."
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"TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company."
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"When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners."
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"The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student."
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"With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand"
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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."
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"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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"[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something."
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"Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication."
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