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Sophia Amoruso Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Hard Work, Creativity
“Take care of the little things — even the little things that you hate — and treat them as promises to your own future. Soon you’ll see that fortune favors the bold who get shit done.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Drudgery, Details, Work
“It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.”
— Sophia Amoruso, GirlBoss
Tagged: cool, Kind, Weird, honest, secure, Confidence
“I learned to stay focused. It’s easy when you’re a young founder to think all your ideas are great ones, but that can be hard on your team, and distracting, when you’re always changing direction.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Sophia Amoruso on launching Girlboss Media: 'There's no physical inventory; it's wonderful'
Tagged: Learning From Your Business Mistakes, Focus
“Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Growing Up, Stay Young, Youth, The Ending
“If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will, even if it’s not immediately obvious.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Believe In Yourself
“The energy you’ll expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Be Your Own Idol
“In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: How We Change, Looking Back, Living Grey
“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. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Alpha Female, Girl Boss, boss, Woman, Women, Worrying, learn, Life
“To not make everything an equal priority takes a lot of maturity.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Sophia Amoruso: From Depressed, ADD and a Thief to Fashion Icon #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Lewis Howes Podcast, Priorities, maturity
“The most unpredictable thing about a business is humans.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Sophia Amoruso: From Nasty Gal to Girlboss by Without Fail
Tagged: Business, Management, Business Education, Failure Stories
“Girls are collaborative, empathic, hard workers.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Girlboss, Season 1: Sophia
“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Opportunity, Extraordinary
“If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, 'Hey, can I have that?'”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Getting What You Want, Carrers, Carrer
“Don’t get me wrong: I’m loyal to every person I’ve hired. But my loyalty lies with the greater business, which means the hundreds of others whose jobs could be at stake if we have the wrong person in the wrong role. I know this sounds harsh, but it’s that level of objectivity that leaders need to have. And leading is, after all, what I’m ultimately here to do.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Loyalty, Hiring
“What was missing, which I'm trying to do now, is creating objective tools for people to understand 'what it is' not 'what I want'. Like, "Oh, Sophia wouldn't like that." I don't want that to be a conversation in a room ever. Whether I'm in it. Or even worse, when I'm not in the room. This is not about whether Sophia likes it or not. Here's the brand. Look, does this fit with that objective guide. This is what we're all signing up for. This is that thing that's not me. I never figured out how to scale me, and then it became a have and have nots about culture.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Sophia Amoruso: From Nasty Gal to Girlboss by Without Fail
Tagged: Business, Management, Business Education, Failure Stories
“Every day I got up, went to work, and got hit in the face with something that I never could have predicted from a business that I'd originally started so I wouldn't have to talk to people. I went from doing small tasks with measurable results (selling more clothes!) to abstractions like going on E! News to talk about what's hot, or speaking at a conference. I didn't want to talk about my job— I wanted to do my job. But then talking about my job became my job. Even worse, people expected me to be a certain way just because I'd accomplished something. A sizeable part of me resented the fact that I had to choose my words carefully.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Business Changes, Growth, Unpredictable, Impossible To Predict
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