Words matter. These are the best Sophia Amoruso Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.
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.
‘Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?’ is probably the dumbest question I’ve ever heard.
A lot of people in my generation don’t seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don’t care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don’t do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That’s why she hired you.
I don’t have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.
I’ve never seen someone work for a salary.
Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.
The first thing I ever sold online was stolen.
It’s a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.
I make money, and I don’t need money.
If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.
I’m not going to lie – it’s insulting to be praised for being a ‘woman’ with ‘no college degree.’
My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.
I feel like there’s so many places to shop today that just feel like an Excel spreadsheet put between four walls.
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.
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.
I love mirrors.
Failure is your invention.
Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.
I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.
The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.
I don’t want to spend too much time dwelling on what I’ve already done because there is still so much to do.
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what’s in their job description.
Only the paranoid survive.
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.
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.
Lots of people are going to sell clothes online. But not a lot of people have built a brand, a living, breathing brand that people feel like they’re part of.
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!
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
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.
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.
Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay – just for way less.
I don’t read fashion blogs all that much. I do read magazines, and I trust my friends’ opinions, even though we all dress very differently.
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.
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.
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.
Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they’re either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.
My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.
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.
I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.
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.
Don’t act like you’ve arrived when you’re just receiving the invitation.
Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.
My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I’d just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.