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Sophia Amoruso Quotes

I love mirrors.

– Sophia Amoruso

I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg ’70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls.

– Sophia Amoruso

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

– Sophia Amoruso

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.

– Sophia Amoruso

The first thing I ever sold online was stolen.

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

– Sophia Amoruso

Every other fashion brand out there – including those that I call ‘competitors’ – are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it.

– Sophia Amoruso

I’ve never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.

– Sophia Amoruso

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.

– Sophia Amoruso

When you owe money to people, you’re always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn’t go away just because you ignore it.

– 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

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

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

– 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

It’s a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.

– Sophia Amoruso

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.

– Sophia Amoruso

Creativity and business acumen don’t always go hand in hand.

– Sophia Amoruso

I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.

– Sophia Amoruso

I’m a capitalist, I’m a CEO, I run a big business, I’m an employer.

– 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

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

I would say I’m a boss who’s learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I’m learning along the way because that’s a tough thing.

– Sophia Amoruso

There’s no ‘Chutes and Ladders’ in life.

– 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

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.

– 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

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

You are not a special snowflake.

– Sophia Amoruso

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

– Sophia Amoruso

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