Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

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.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

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.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

Sophia Amoruso
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
Sophia Amoruso

You are not a special snowflake.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

Music is such a big part of my life.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

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
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
Sophia Amoruso

I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

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.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

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.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

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

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.