Amoruso Amoruso Quotes & Sayings

the whole philosophy behind this book is that true success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths. In short, when you suck at something and don't want it anyway, cut your losses and move on. — Sophia Amoruso

If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it's that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you, too. — Sophia Amoruso

Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

'Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?' is probably the dumbest question I've ever heard. — Sophia Amoruso

My biggest weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, — Sophia Amoruso

I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life. — Sophia Amoruso

fortune favors action. — Sophia Amoruso

When you begin with the finish line in mind, you miss all the fun stuff along the way. The better approach is to tweak and grow, tweak and grow. — Sophia Amoruso

The first thing I ever sold online was stolen. — Sophia Amoruso

Owing your style sometimes takes effort, and it's okay to expend effort on how you look — Sophia Amoruso

Look up and look around, and if you're not finding something inspiring, then you're probably not looking hard enough. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food. — Sophia Amoruso

Your challenge as #GIRLBOSS is to dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results. When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility. Failure is your invention.I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you being to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare. It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds. These words were not invented for an incremental life. "Success" and "failure" serve a world that is black-and-white. And as I said before, it's all just kinda grey. — Sophia Amoruso

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.' — Sophia Amoruso

You belong wherever you want to belong. — Sophia Amoruso

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

We don't need people who just have ideas; we need people who can also execute them. — Sophia Amoruso

...you can ruin your credit in one seemingly responsible afternoon, but rebuilding it takes years. — Sophia Amoruso

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

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. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

As distasteful as it may seem when you're busy plotting to take over the world, it's equally important to stay on top of your bills. — Sophia Amoruso

given that I'm making decisions that involve so much money and so many people, I can't afford to pretend to know what's up. — Sophia Amoruso

Figure out what you love doing and don't suck at, then try to figure out how to make a living doing that! Don't be scared. We're all going to die, it's just a question of when and how - so — Sophia Amoruso

Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures. Compete with yourself, not with others. Judge yourself on what is your personal best and you'll accomplish more than you could ever have imagined. Life stops for no one, so keep moving. Stay awake and stay alive. There's no AutoCorrect in life - think before texting the universe. Breaking the rules just for fun is too easy - the real challenge lies in perfecting the art of knowing which rules to accept and which to rewrite. The more you experiment, take risks, and make mistakes, the better you'll know yourself, the better you'll know the world, and the more focused you'll be. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

I choose to obey explicit rules - like, you know, paying for something before I leave the store - but the rules that society implies we follow, well, those are the rules I have the most fun breaking. — Sophia Amoruso

Owning your style takes some effort, and it's okay to expend effort on how you look. Putting in effort is exactly what you should be doing. You should get dressed for your life. I don't care if the only place you have to go is the post office. Get dressed, #girlboss, and let your freak flag fly. — Sophia Amoruso

I tried the obvious route of hourly jobs and community college, and it just never worked for me. I'd been told for so long that the path to success was paved with a series of boxes you checked off, starting with getting a degree and getting a job, and I kept trying and failing at these, it sometimes seemed that I was destined for a life in the loser lane. But I always suspected that I was destined for more, and that I was capable of, something bigger. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

Rule number two: Keep your promises. — Sophia Amoruso

Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves. — Sophia Amoruso

A cover letter can connect the dots between where you've been, where you are, and where you're trying to go. — Sophia Amoruso

If you're dreaming big, #GIRLBOSS, don't be discouraged if you have to start small. It worked for me. — Sophia Amoruso

I feel like there's so many places to shop today that just feel like an Excel spreadsheet put between four walls. — Sophia Amoruso

When you are a one-percenter, you live your life your way. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

It takes a lot of hard work to 'get there,' and once you get there it takes even more hard work to stay there. — Sophia Amoruso

Failure is your invention. — Sophia Amoruso

As a teen, I was an angst on wheels, and as an adult, I'm essentially a young, half-Greek Larry David in heels-incapable of hiding discomfort, dissatisfaction, or doubt, inescapably myself and often honest to a fault. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

The only factor that affects your chance of getting a raise is whether or not you've earned it. It doesn't matter if your car broke down or that your landlord's raising your rent. Those facts are not your boss's problem. All she needs to know is that you're kicking ass, like a #GIRLBOSS should. — Sophia Amoruso

When you're applying for jobs, it's best to be employed while doing it. You want the world to know that you're not lollygagging between gigs, but instead have a lot of choices in front of you and are actively charting your own path. — Sophia Amoruso

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

Bet on yourself. — Sophia Amoruso

People only have as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
-Emma Goldman — Sophia Amoruso

Extroverts get their energy from being around a lot of people, but introverts find large groups draining and require time alone to recharge — Sophia Amoruso

Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less. — Sophia Amoruso

When I think about the future, I know that the most fantastic things are too awesome to even imagine today. Great entrepreneurs are like Indiana Jones: They take leaps before seeing the bridge because they know that if they don't, someone else will get that holy grail. That holy grail is yours for the taking. — Sophia Amoruso

You don't get what you want if you don't ask for it. — Sophia Amoruso

I hate the concept of luck, especially when people try to apply it to me. Yes, it's true: Hundreds of thousands of businesses fail. Mine succeded. Was that all just because I "got lucky"? I don't really think so.
What I hate about luck is that it implies being devois of responsibility. It implies that you can do nothing and the step into success as easily as stepping into a pile of dog poop on the sidewalk. It implies that success is something given to a knighted and often undeserving few. Luck tells us that we don't control our own fate, and that our path to succes of failure is written by someone, or something, entirely outside overselves. Luck let us believe that whatever happens, whether good or bad, it's not to our credit or our fault. That is why I don't buy luck. But I do buy magic. — Sophia Amoruso

My adopted political ideals had let me approach money with an elevated level of distaste. I saw it as a materialistic pursuit for materialistic people, but what I have realized over time is that in many ways, money spells freedom. — Sophia Amoruso

You want to know what four words I probably hate the most? 'That's not my job.' — Sophia Amoruso

Abandon anything in your life and habits that might be holding you back. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

But thinking back now makes me scared for my former self the way any mother would be scared for her teenage daughter doing what I did. — Sophia Amoruso

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are. — Sophia Amoruso

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well. — Sophia Amoruso

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration. — Sophia Amoruso

It's just recognizing the fact that we control our thoughts and our thoughts control our lives. This is an extremely simple, totally straightforward concept, but for a lot of people, it's so alien that it might as well be magic. — Sophia Amoruso

When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

Cash Is King Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises. - Artistotle — Sophia Amoruso

You will make sacrifices and compromises, get let down and let other people down, fail and start over, break some hearts, take some names, and learn to pick up and continue when your own heart gets broken. 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. Paul — Sophia Amoruso

Nasty Gal Obsessed: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do. Without customers, we have nothing. Own It: Take the ball and run with it. We make smart decisions, put the business first, and do more with less. People Are Important: Reach out, make friends, build trust. No Assholes: We leave our egos at the door. We are respectful, collaborative, curious, and open-minded. Learn On: What we're building has never been built before - the future is ours to write. We get excited about growth, take intelligent risks, and learn from our mistakes. Have Fun and Keep It Weird. — Sophia Amoruso

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you. — Sophia Amoruso

Naturally, every boyfriend comes with an ex-girlfriend, every business comes with competitors, but it is entirely up to you to decide how much time you spend thinking about them. — Sophia Amoruso

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK! — Sophia Amoruso

I believed in what I was doing, and fortunately other people believed in it as well. I cared as much about the process as I did about the results. No decision was too small. — Sophia Amoruso

Start making smart decisions now to avoid paying for stupid ones later. — Sophia Amoruso

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life. — Sophia Amoruso

There's a certain freedom to being an — Sophia Amoruso

Finally, though, I arrived at a point where I decided this was bullshit. I stopped feeling as if I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I belonged anywhere I wanted to be - whether that was a boardroom, business class, or on — Sophia Amoruso

Keep reminding yourself over and over that this is what you want, and you'll soon find that the more you want, the less you're willing to put up with what you don't. — Sophia Amoruso

..we control our thoughts and our thoughts control our lives. — Sophia Amoruso

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths — Sophia Amoruso

It's becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. -Seth Godin, Linchpin — Sophia Amoruso

Spell check exists for a reason. — Sophia Amoruso

stage at a Women's Wear Daily CEO Summit. — Sophia Amoruso

Who cares if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it? The tree still falls. If you believe that what you're doing will have positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious. When you hold yourself to the same standard in your work that you do as a friend, girlfriend, student, or otherwise, it pays off. — Sophia Amoruso

But you, dear #GIRLBOSS, should save 10 percent at the bare minimum. I know it's a lot easier to talk about saving money than it is to actually save it. Here's a tip: Treat your savings account like just another bill. It has to be paid every month, or there are consequences. If you have direct deposit, have a portion of your paycheck automatically diverted into a savings account. Once it's in there, forget about it. You never saw it anyway. It's an emergency fund only (and vacations are not emergencies). — Sophia Amoruso

wear. If you start listening, you should find that your heart has known what's up all along. This — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

In a 2011 TED Talk in San Francisco, author and speaker Mel Robbins talked about how the chances that you are you are about 1 in 400 trillion. (Yes, that's a four hundred followed by twelve zeros.) This takes into account the chance of your parents meeting out of all the people on the planet, the chance of them reproducing, the chance of you being born at the exact moment that you were, and every other wildly improbable factor that goes into each individual person. The whole point of her crazy calculation was that we should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. — Sophia Amoruso

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so. — Sophia Amoruso

The most important thing to do is to take risks. The risks are where breakthroughs happen, and big shifts take you to new places and create opportunities. They can be really scary and intimidating, but that means it is taking you out of your comfort zone. All designers look at life through a — Sophia Amoruso

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

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. — Sophia Amoruso

It's cool to be kind. It's cool to be weird. It's cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself. — Sophia Amoruso

I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear. — Sophia Amoruso

It's a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet. — Sophia Amoruso

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. — Sophia Amoruso

What I know now is that nothing is universally boring - what's boring to you could be totally engaging to someone else. If you're bored and hating it, it's a big sign that you're most likely just in the wrong place. — Sophia Amoruso

It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds. — Sophia Amoruso

I work in silence. — Sophia Amoruso

Don't ever grow up.
Don't become a bore. — Sophia Amoruso

So You Want to Be a #GIRLBOSS? Life is short. Don't be lazy. — Sophia Amoruso