Top 200 Sophia Amoruso Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Rule number two: Keep your promises.”

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152. “Figure out what you love doing and don’t suck at, then try to figure out how to make a living doing that! Don’t be scared. We’re all going to die, it’s just a question of when and how – so be brave! You will never regret trying to fulfill your dream!”

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153. “It takes a lot of hard work to ‘get there,’ and once you get there it takes even more hard work to stay there.”

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154. “You’ll appreciate your amazing career so much more when you look back at your not-so-amazing jobs in the past, and hopefully realize that you learned something from all of them.”

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155. “We all, at some point, find ourselves either directly or indirectly supporting something we disagree with.”

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156. “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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157. “I wanted to live outside the capitalist structure, to live free and travel free, and to exist outside a nine-to-five-life-girl’s body. I wanted to live spontaneously and to find myself in wild places, with wild people, and have wild times. Let me remind you, I was naive enough to believe this was how I could live my life indefinitely.”

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

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

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

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

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165. “Silhouette is what makes anything successful.”

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166. “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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167. “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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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “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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177. “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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178. “When I’m confident in what I am wearing, it makes me feel more confident throughout the day. Granted, I could probably negotiate a deal in my pajamas, but I’m a lot more dangerous in a pair of leather pants and boots that could hurt a fool.”

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179. “Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.”

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180. “Look up and look around, and if you’re not finding something inspiring, then you’re probably not looking hard enough.”

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181. “Some things are worth fighting for – don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely a fighter – but I really think that what is right should be easy. My dad has always said that the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, and it’s so true. 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.”

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182. “Also, introverts might hang back in meetings and thus not be perceived as “leadership material,” even though introverted people frequently make more empathetic managers.”

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183. “Owing your style sometimes takes effort, and it’s okay to expend effort on how you look.”

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184. “I especially love a handwritten not because to me, someone who knows to have good manners knows how to get what she wants in the world.”

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185. “Cruising down Sunset Boulevard with the Cramps blasting and palm trees silhouetted by the neon signs of strip clubs can sometimes repair the worst of moods.”

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186. “All actions are creative.”

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187. “It’s just recognizing the fact that we control our thoughts and our thoughts control our lives.”

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188. “I never assisted anyone; I just gave it my all.”

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189. “Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable with taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.”

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190. “Learn how to take care of yourself so that the man you marry is the man you choose to be with and not just the man who will take care of you.”

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191. “You’ve already taken the first step toward an awesome life by simply wanting one.”

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192. “If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will – even if it’s not immediately obvious. 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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193. “If you’re working, you’re working hard, and if you’re not doing that, what are you doing?”

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194. “My adopted political ideals had let me approach money with an elevated level of distaste. I saw it as a materialistic pursuit for materialistic people, but what I have realized over time is that in many ways, money spells freedom.”

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195. “If you start listening, you should find that your heart has know what’s up all along.”

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196. “Learning how to manage your money is one of the most important things you’ll ever do.”

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197. “Confidence is more attractive than anything you could put on your body.”

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198. “Customer service was my number one priority. A lot of people run their businesses like their customers are dummies. This is a mistake. If you’re just out to take their money, they know it. But if you genuinely care about what you’re doing, they will respond.”

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199. “Luck tells us that we don’t control our own fate, and that our path to success or failure is written by someone, or something, entirely outside ourselves.”

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200. “It sounds incredibly platitudinal, but no one will ever be able to love you if you don’t love yourself. What’s beautiful about it is that if you love yourself enough you don’t need the validation from anyone else.”

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