Quotes from Sophia Amoruso

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

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

I'm really good at hiring good people.

When I go through hundreds of applications from people who all have very similar-sounding experience, cover letters are the only glimpse I have into a person's personality.

I think I've just gotten really good at accessorizing personally. I've always been good at accessorizing other people, and intellectually, I've known how to accessorize, but I was pretty minimal personally - although I was wearing a ton of rings.

I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.

Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not.

I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.

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.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

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.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

I work in silence.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

Failure is your invention.

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

You are not a special snowflake.

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.