Top 200 Sophia Amoruso Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means. – Calvin Coolidge.”

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102. “When I’m not working, I’m still working.”

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103. “Being in a good spot financially can open up so many doors.”

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104. “I found that I enjoyed work and thrived on challenges.”

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105. “If you learn to control your finances, you won’t find yourself stuck in jobs, places, or relationships that you hate just because you can’t afford to go elsewhere. Learning how to manage your money is one of the most important things you’ll ever do. Being in a good spot financially can open up so many doors. Being in a bad spot can slam them in your face. And being broke gets old, so start making smart decisions now to avoid paying for stupid ones later.”

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106. “We should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. If you hear this fact as discouraging – that you’re only one in billions – then flip the script. You are one in billions! Someone has to succeed, so it might as well be you.”

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107. “Sell things for more than you pay for them, and save more than you spend.”

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108. “Keep reminding yourself over and over that this is what you want, and you’ll soon find that the more you know what you want, the less you’re willing to put up with what you don’t.”

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109. “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.”

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110. “I wanted to live spontaneously and to find myself in wild places, with wild people, and have wild times.”

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111. “I entered adulthood believing that capitalism was a scam, but I’ve instead found that it’s a kind of alchemy. You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.”

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112. “I never assumed that I’d just done my best job the first time around. Your challenge is to 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. Failure is your invention.”

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113. “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”

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114. “When you approach everything as if it’s a big, fun experiment, then it’s not that big of a deal if things don’t work out. If the plan changes, that can be even better.”

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115. “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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116. “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.”

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117. “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.”

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118. “In short, when you suck at something and don’t want it anyway, cut your losses and move on.”

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119. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett.”

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120. “We leave our egos at the door. We are respectful, collaborative, curious and open-minded.”

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121. “At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I’ve been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity.”

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122. “When you hold yourself to the same standard in your work that you do as a friend, girlfriend, student, or otherwise, it pays off.”

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123. “One dream is never enough, and your dream can be molded and finessed along the way to become relevant and successful.”

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124. “It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.”

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125. “I tried the obvious route of hourly jobs and community college, and it just never worked for me. I’d been told for so long that the path to success was paved with a series of boxes you checked off, starting with getting a degree and getting a job, and I kept trying and failing at these, it sometimes seemed that I was destined for a life in the loser lane. But I always suspected that I was destined for more, and that I was capable of, something bigger.”

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126. “Unless you’re powered by an ungodly amount of spite, it’s pretty impossible to succeed while doing something that you genuinely hate.”

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127. “I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.”

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128. “What I know now is that nothing is universally boring – what’s boring to you could be totally engaging to someone else. If you’re bored and hating it, it’s a big sign that you’re most likely just in the wrong place.”

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129. “Don’t ever grow up. Don’t ever become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.”

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130. “In Jason Fried’s book Rework, he writes that one of the smartest investments a business can make is in hiring great writers, and I completely agree. No.”

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131. “A lot of the time, even the CEO only has about ten percent of the info needed to make a good decision. Speaking.”

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132. “Be confident – and absolutely sure – about what you know, but humble about what you don’t.”

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133. “Sell things for more than you pay them, and save more than you spend. Simple, yes, but that is the philosphy that ultimately led to a really big business.”

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134. “Don’t ever let the Man get you.”

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135. “You want to know what four words I probably hate the most? “That’s not my job.”

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136. “All of that flailing about, trying new things and finding out that I liked some of them and hated others, ended up amalgamating into something very real and very meaningful, and in the end, made me capable of providing a life for myself.”

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137. “When you are a one-percenter, you live your life your way.”

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138. “Silhouette is what makes anything successful.”

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139. “Being mean won’t make you cool, being rich won’t make you cool, and having the right clothes, while it may help, won’t make you cool. It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself. Cool is the girl at a party who strikes up a conversation with you when she notices you don’t seem to know many people there.”

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140. “While you’re reading this, I have three pieces of advice that I want you to remember: Don’t ever grow up. Don’t necome a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.”

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141. “I have never once in my life thought that being a girl was something that I had to overcome. My mom grew up doing the cooking and cleaning while her brothers got to enjoy their childhoods. In my mom’s experience, being a girl was most definitely a disadvantage.”

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142. “And when something got really boring, I turned it into a game to see how quickly, efficiently, and accurately I could get the job done.”

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143. “I also think you age a lot quicker if you can’t keep yourself busy and under the right, healthy dose of stress.”

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144. “Don’t be scared. We’re all going to die, it’s just a question of when and how – so be brave.”

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145. “It was around this time that a psychiatrist diagnosed me with both depression and ADD. Though there was no doubt I was depressed, I refused to take the pills that he prescribed, instead throwing them away. I knew then that my utter misery and universal disinterest were not due to a chemical imbalance. This wasn’t something that could just be medicated out of me – I just hated where I was.”

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146. “If I see you in a club hobbling like an injured baby colt, I want to push you over. I will push you over.”

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147. “Look up and look around, and if you’re not finding something inspiring, then you’re probably not looking hard enough. Remember, I touched every piece of clothing in those thrift stores. You have to do that with your life.”

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148. “Figure out what you love doing and don’t suck at, then try to figure out how to make a living doing that.”

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149. “While I truly believe that you must have intentions to fulfill your dreams, I also think you have to leave room for the universe to have its way and play around a bit.”

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150. “Many companies were spending millions of dollars trying to nail social media, but I just went with my instincts and treated my customers like they were my friends. Even with no manager watching to give me a gold star, it was important to do my best. Who cares if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it? The tree still falls.”

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