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. – Sophia Amoruso
I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well. – Sophia Amoruso
Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It’s a bit like having someone break up with you. – Sophia Amoruso
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. – Sophia Amoruso
Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don’t think there is some ultimate success. – Sophia Amoruso
I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t let The Man get to you. – Sophia Amoruso
Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There’s no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out. – Sophia Amoruso
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. – Sophia Amoruso
I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt – and I have – while everyone else is wearing the same dress. – Sophia Amoruso
EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics. – Sophia Amoruso
