Top 200 Sophia Amoruso Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m telling you that you don’t have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.”

— Sophia Amoruso

52. “You can’t act like you’ve arrived when you’re only just receiving the invitation.”

— Sophia Amoruso

53. “One of the best things about life – a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only – is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.”

— Sophia Amoruso

54. “What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.”

— Sophia Amoruso

55. “Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up. – Pablo Picasso.”

— Sophia Amoruso

56. “In a now famous commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs urged the graduating class to “stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures. Compete with yourself, not with others. Judge yourself on what is your personal best and you’ll accomplish more than you could ever have imagined. Life stops for no one, so keep moving. Stay awake and stay alive.”

— Sophia Amoruso

57. “I want to make people happy or make them laugh -even if it’s at my own expense.”

— Sophia Amoruso

58. “But there’s also the everyday kind of magic that we make for ourselves. And that’s really not magic at all. It’s just recognizing the fact that we control our thoughts and our thoughts control our lives. This is an extremely simple, totally straightforward concept, but for a lot of people, it’s so alien that it might as well be magic.”

— Sophia Amoruso

59. “I also think you can end up ignoring, and even losing, the positive things in your life by focusing too much on the negative. That’s a huge drain, as well as a waste of time. When you think about people, you give them power.”

— Sophia Amoruso

60. “If something’s not working out, but you keep hammering at it in the exact same way, go after something else for a while. That’s not giving up, that’s just letting the universe have its way.”

— Sophia Amoruso

61. “In a city full of noise, he’d found light by living in the shadows.”

— Sophia Amoruso

62. “Each time you make a good decision or do something nice or take care of yourself; each time you show up to work and work hard and do your best at everything you can do, you’re planting seeds for a life that you can only hope will grow beyond your wildest dreams.”

— Sophia Amoruso

63. “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. – Emma Goldman.”

— Sophia Amoruso

64. “Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson famously defined “entrepreneurship” as “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.”

— Sophia Amoruso

65. “If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You cant expect the world to read your mind.”

— Sophia Amoruso

66. “You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create... You will make sacrifices and compromises, get let down and let other people down, fail and start over... But difficult doesn’t mean impossible.”

— Sophia Amoruso

67. “Don’t you dare alter your inner freak-she’s got your back.”

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68. “You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as saying, “Hey, can I have that?“.”

— Sophia Amoruso

69. “When your time spent making money is significantly greater than your time spent spending money, you will be amazed at how much you can save without even really thinking about it.”

— Sophia Amoruso

70. “You get back what you put out, so you might as well think positively, focus on visualizing what you want instead of getting distracted by what you don’t want, and send the universe your good intentions so that it can send them right back.”

— Sophia Amoruso

71. “The straight and narrow is not the only path to success.”

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72. “Alter your clothes all you want, but don’t you dare alter your inner freak – she’s got your back as much as I do.”

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73. “Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results. When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility.”

— Sophia Amoruso

74. “As a teen, I was an angst on wheels, and as an adult, I’m essentially a young, half-Greek Larry David in heels-incapable of hiding discomfort, dissatisfaction, or doubt, inescapably myself and often honest to a fault.”

— Sophia Amoruso

75. “You will make sacrifices and compromises, get let down and let other people down, fail and start over, break some hearts, take some names, and learn to pick up and continue when your own heart gets broken. But difficult doesn’t mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can’t control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in. Paul.”

— Sophia Amoruso

76. “I like being myself. Myself and nasty. – Aldous Huxley.”

— Sophia Amoruso

77. “Overwhelmingly busy is a much better state to be in than overwhelmingly bored.”

— Sophia Amoruso

78. “Focus on the positive things in your life and you’ll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening. But before you start to think you just got lucky, remember that it’s magic, and you made it yourself.”

— Sophia Amoruso

79. “Surround yourself with people who are engaged, honest, and confident enough on their own quest to support you on yours. There is no time for losers.”

— Sophia Amoruso

80. “If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. – David Foster Wallace.”

— Sophia Amoruso

81. “When I put on makeup, I’m not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideals of feminine beauty. I’m doing it because it makes mr feel good.”

— Sophia Amoruso

82. “It’s that buying the Porsche, in all of its German-engineered perfection, just wasn’t as special. Nothing will ever compare to the first time I bought myself a car, because it simply can’t be done again.”

— Sophia Amoruso

83. “If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.”

— Sophia Amoruso

84. “Discomfort was where I was most comfortable.”

— Sophia Amoruso

85. “Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things, and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves. Adulthood was a lot more nuanced than.”

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86. “When you’re applying for jobs, it’s best to be employed while doing it. You want the world to know that you’re not lollygagging between gigs, but instead have a lot of choices in front of you and are actively charting your own path.”

— Sophia Amoruso

87. “When I do things because I want to do them, and not because I have to, I can accomplish a lot.”

— Sophia Amoruso

88. “Yet it taught me a lesson: While it’s okay to be friends with my investor, it’s not okay to be friends with my direct reports. If you need someone to listen as you drag your psyche across the coals, find a friend or a therapist, but don’t do it with someone you’re expected to manage on a daily basis.”

— Sophia Amoruso

89. “You’re not bossy, you’re the boss.”

— Sophia Amoruso

90. “Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world. When you choose your clothing right, it feels good. And there’s nothing shallow about feeling good.”

— Sophia Amoruso

91. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. – Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn.”

— Sophia Amoruso

92. “I believed in what I was doing, and fortunately other people believed in it as well. I cared as much about the process as I did about the results. No decision was too small.”

— Sophia Amoruso

93. “IWWIWWWIWI: I Want What I Want When and Where I Want It.”

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94. “And once you’ve found success, don’t stop. It’s not about being insatiable; it’s about not resting on your laurels.”

— Sophia Amoruso

95. “Although playing hard to get might be cute in the dating world, it won’t fly with potential employers. They don’t have time to court you, so you had better romance the hell out of them.”

— Sophia Amoruso

96. “That’s the spirit of Nasty Gal: We want you to dress for yourself, and know that it’s not shallow to put effort into how you look.”

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97. “I choose to obey explicit rules – like, you know, paying for something before I leave the store – but the rules that society implies we follow, well, those are the rules I have the most fun breaking.”

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98. “When I think about the future, I know that the most fantastic things are too awesome to even imagine today. Great entrepreneurs are like Indiana Jones: They take leaps before seeing the bridge because they know that if they don’t, someone else will get that holy grail. That holy grail is yours for the taking.”

— Sophia Amoruso

99. “Being from the suburbs, I’d always equated comfort with ennui, and possessions with materialism, but I was beginning to learn that this wasn’t necessarily the case. Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things, and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves.”

— Sophia Amoruso

100. “When you begin with the finish line in mind, you miss all the fun stuff along the way. The better approach is to tweak and grow, tweak and grow.”

— Sophia Amoruso