Blake Mycoskie famous quotes

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Exercise #Volunteer #Joy

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Thinking

The more you give, the more you live.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Giving

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Grateful #People #Important

If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Done #Helping #Wonderful

If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Taken #Opportunity #Ideas

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Notebook #Technology #Simple

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Passion #Stories #Matter

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#People #Goal #Helping

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement,
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Community #Leader #Movement

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Being Thankful #Earth

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Giving #Fuel #Our Future

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Opposites #Facts #Complicated

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Mean #People #Decision

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Real #School #College

Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Ideas #Lunch #Who I Am

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Dream #Important #Disease

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Wine #Important #Bottles

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Surround #Quotations

I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Sleep #Different #Used

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Book #House #One Day

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Educational #Giving #Feel Good

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Important #Firsts #Steps

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know.  A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Memorable #Doors #Degrees

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Simple #Simplicity #Important

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Communication #Stories #Form

We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Believe #Entrepreneur #Waiting

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Spiritual #Morning #Crazy

Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Doors #Sharks #Careers

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Motivational #Needs #Today

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Motivational #Country #Greatness

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Doors #Stories #Boundaries

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Educational #Community #Buying

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Educational #Passion #Giving