“It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.”
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“If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it’s that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you, too.”
“Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable with taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.”
“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.”
“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?”
“If you learn to control your finances, you won’t find yourself stuck in jobs, places, or relationships that you hate just because you can’t afford to go elsewhere…money looks better in the bank than on your feet.”
“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.”
“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.”
All quotes from Sopia Amoruso and illustrations by Jo Ratcliffe
(except for Sophia by Regina Yazdi)
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