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Sophia Amoruso [1984-0] American

Sophia Christina Amoruso is an American businesswoman. At 22, Amoruso started an online eBay store selling vintage clothing and other items, which she named "Nasty Gal Vintage."

Beauty, Car, Design, Learning, Money, Patience

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When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.	Money	101
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.		102
Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not.		103
Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.	Beauty	104
The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.		105
Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.		106
A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.		107
It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.		108
I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now because in L.A., a Porsche is like a Honda. It was just that I could pay that much money for a car and drive it off the lot.	Car	109
Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.	Learning	110
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.'		111
I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.		112
You are not a special snowflake.		113
I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.		114
Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.		115
There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.		116
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.		117
Only the paranoid survive.		118
It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.		119
I make money, and I don't need money.		120
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.		121
I've never seen someone work for a salary.		122
Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.		123
The first thing I ever sold online was stolen.		124
EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.		125
Lots of people are going to sell clothes online. But not a lot of people have built a brand, a living, breathing brand that people feel like they're part of.		126
The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.		201
I built a huge profitable business with no debt.		202
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.		203
I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.		204
Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.		205
It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.		206
I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.		207
It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store.		208
I'm really good at hiring good people.		209
I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.		210
I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.		211
Don't you dare alter your inner freak.		212
I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.		213
I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you.		214
Failure is your invention.		215
My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.		216
Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.		217
If you look at my Instagram, girls are just beating down my door for tips or a job or mentorship. I can't hire every single one of them. My story is one thing that gives them hope. It's an unconventional story with anecdotes, commonsense advice and a big dose of permission to figure things out for yourself.		218
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.		219
Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.		220
I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things.		221
I work in silence.		222
I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.		223
I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.		224
You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.		225
Music is such a big part of my life.		226
My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.		301
Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call 'competitors' - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it.		302
Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.		303
I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.		304
I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.		305
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.		306
I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life.		307
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.		308
It's a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.		309
I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.		310
I think there are very few brands with a person's point of view behind them.		311
I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.		312
I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.		313
I don't read fashion blogs all that much. I do read magazines, and I trust my friends' opinions, even though we all dress very differently.		314
I think I've just gotten really good at accessorizing personally. I've always been good at accessorizing other people, and intellectually, I've known how to accessorize, but I was pretty minimal personally - although I was wearing a ton of rings.		315
I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls.		316
My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.		317
It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.		318
Spell check exists for a reason.		319
I love mirrors.		320
I feel like there's so many places to shop today that just feel like an Excel spreadsheet put between four walls.		321
I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.	Patience	322
I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.		323
I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'		324
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it.		325
If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.		326
My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.		401
A typical day for me involves a lot of meetings.		402
Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.		403
Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.		404
Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.		405
At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.		406
It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.		407
You want to know what four words I probably hate the most? 'That's not my job.'		408
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.		409
Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less.		410
My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.		411
A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.		412
You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.		413
'Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?' is probably the dumbest question I've ever heard.		414
Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.		415
I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.		416
When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.		417
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!		418
Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.		419
When I go through hundreds of applications from people who all have very similar-sounding experience, cover letters are the only glimpse I have into a person's personality.		420
As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.	Design	421

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