Top 169 Quotes & Sayings by Sophia Amoruso
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
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.
EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.
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.
I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.
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.
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.
I'm really good at hiring good people.
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.
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.
I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.
Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.
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.
Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call 'competitors' - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it.
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.
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
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.
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.
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.
There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.
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.
I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.
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.
I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.
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.
Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.
Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.
I make money, and I don't need money.
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.
I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life.
I've never seen someone work for a salary.
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.
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.
I built a huge profitable business with no debt.
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.
Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.
Don't you dare alter your inner freak.
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.
I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.
You are not a special snowflake.
Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.
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 often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.
Failure is your invention.
I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.
Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.
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.
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.
I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.
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.
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.
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.
It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.
The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.
Music is such a big part of my life.
The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.
The first thing I ever sold online was stolen.
I work in silence.
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