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“I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.”

Quote by Blake Mycoskie

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Start Something That Matters

This book explores the principles and practices of starting a venture that not only generates profit but also contributes positively to society. It discusses how to identify a cause worth fighting for, build a team, and create a business model that aligns with personal values and societal needs. more

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Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie

Blake Mycoskie is an entrepreneur known for founding TOMS Shoes, a brand that has gained recognition for its 'One for One' business model, which donates a pair of shoes to a person in need for every pair sold. Born on August 26, 1976, Mycoskie's interest in international development led him to start TOMS after experiencing the need for footwear among children in Argentina during his travels. more

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“The most important step of all is the first step. Start something! What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people? You owe it to the world ot act. Or maybe it will help only a few people: The same advice applies. If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.”

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.”

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”