Sophia Amoruso Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

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

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

Compete with yourself, not with others.

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

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

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

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

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

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.

The only thing I smoke is my competition

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

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

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 belong wherever you want to belong.

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.

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

Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results

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

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

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.

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

When you think about people, you give them power.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.