Sophia amoruso quotes

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.

I think there are times when I can be a good thing.

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

Its not about being included. It about creating your own space and including yourself and then finding other people that are like okay.

You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!

The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening

Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

The biggest challenge is people thinking you know everything going on in your company, because you're at the top of it and you started it. But the thing is, nobody knows everything about anything.

Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

You have to be really vigilant and appreciative of what you have and not get too excited about anything. But it's important to celebrate what you have and feel proud for a minute.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get up and do things and think about your life. And for a book that looks that beautiful on a coffee table, I think that's a very special thing. So it's hopefully a new genre I guess, of book. It was so fun to put together and fun to write, that was really a pleasure.

We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.

I'm telling you that you don't have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.

That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.

Teamwork is not always going to be split equally, and being able to work on a team without competing with your peers is an important skill to have. If you're that good, the other things you do independently will be seen, and over time it will be obvious that you're a winner.

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.

Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo

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.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

You belong wherever you want to belong.

Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

Many people are too lazy to go out, can't afford to, or are too swamped. If you can manage your workload and get out for lunch, more power to you. You're at the wrong employer if you find yourself penalized for something so human.

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

You don't get what you don't ask for

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

There's so many moving pieces, but to be as public as I've become and to be at the front and take the brunt of anything that happens is a huge responsibility, but also something that takes some time to step into and that has been really challenging.

One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and you don't require sleep, and you don't get hung over, and you can fire on all cylinders. At 32 I don't consider myself old by any means, but you just find yourself in a place where you can't do everything the way you once did, and you have to take time to reflect and I think that's really important, because you get to appreciate what you have, and to enjoy it.

Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world.

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?

Just balancing all the different projects, I mean I spent almost 10 years just doing Nasty Gal and I say "just" but that was a lot, and it's still a lot.

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool.

A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.

I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.

When you think about people, you give them power.

Compete with yourself, not with others.

It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.

Just women who are really eclectic, so every woman from Gwyneth Paltrow to Peggy Nolan, who has half a shaved head and has a totally wild aesthetic. They're woman who are doing things, running their own businesses, taking chances at different levels of success and different industries. A lot of my friends are creatives. It was just who I really adore and wanted to share with a greater audience.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

It's a huge assortment that we have under our roof and I don't know, it's just managing a taste level and execution of a vision. I think our team does as incredible job at it but it takes incredible leadership and I'm only really a spark for all of that. I'm not out there at every trade show, and so having an amazing team that can keep that vision month after month and keep the assortment consistent is a huge challenge. But something I think we execute every well.

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. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

It's definitely hard, it's hard to get into a Monday, it's much easier to work through a weekend and accomplish a lot, but I don't think that's the healthiest way to live.

It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did.

The only thing I smoke is my competition

If you listen only to those around you, the chances of your dreams coming true are very small.

It’s the age-old concept of like attracts like, or the law of attraction. You get back what you put out, so you might as well think positively, focus on visualizing what you want instead of getting distracted by what you don’t want, and send the universe your good intentions so that it can send them right back.

Well advice people have told me that is that, "If people aren't suing you, you haven't made it," which I don't necessarily believe but with greater success comes greater responsibility and being one of the few female entrepreneurs who I think has been as public as I have been, you're definitely under a spotlight. It's difficult to manage.

The last thing I’d ever subscribe to are fashion rules. However, I do think that you should put effort into what you wear. Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world. When you choose your clothing right, it feels good. And there’s nothing shallow about feeling good. Owning your style, however, is much more about your attitude than it is about what’s on your back. But don’t underestimate the transformational possibilities that getting dressed can afford you.

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.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

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.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.

Our lives are so visual now, with social media and we're constantly shifting gears. Nobody requires a table of contents. Nobody requires that one page leads to the next page, we're okay being surprised by things that are eclectic.