Blake Mycoskie Quotes

The more you give, the more you live.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop

If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if...