The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.
Sophia Amoruso
Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.
You are not a special snowflake.
I've never seen someone work for a salary.
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.
If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.
I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.
My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls.
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.
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.
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.
Music is such a big part of my life.
Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.
I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.
I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.
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.
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.
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'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.
As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.
Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.
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.
Only the paranoid survive.
In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.
I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.
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.
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 can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.
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.
I'm really good at hiring good people.
There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.
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.
I make money, and I don't need money.
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
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 first thing I ever sold online was stolen.
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.
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.
The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.
I built a huge profitable business with no debt.
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.
Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.
It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.
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've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.
Don't you dare alter your inner freak.
I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.
