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What do I love about: Girl boss?
Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty- two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking ID’s in the lobby of an art school- a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay.
Flash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250 million- plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for all other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as hell and lined with naysayers.
#GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.
What do I not love about: Girl boss?
Zilch
Who should read: Girl boss?
Great read for every girl.
Who should not read: Girl boss?
I do not think any guy will appreciate this book.
Notes from girl boss?
- I’m bad, and that’s good. I will never be good, and that’s not bad. There’s no one I’d rather be than me- Wreck-It Ralph
- Life is short. Don’t be lazy- Sophia Amoruso
- Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries- Kim Gordon
- There are many opportunities hidden inside every failure- Sophia Amoruso
- It was the straying that found the path direct- Austin Osman Spare
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be- Douglas Adams
- To be in a world, unborable….It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish- David Foster Wallace
- I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free- Iggy Pop
- Discomfort was where I was most comfortable- Sophia Amoruso
- People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take- Emma Goldman
- But if these years have taught me anything it is this: You can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in- Junot Diaz
- The only way to support a revolution is to create your own- Abbie Hoffman
- When you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves- Sophia Amoruso
- There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means- Calvin Coolidge
- Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises- Aristotle
- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law- Aleister Crawley
- Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it- Roald Dahl
- Why fit in when you were born to stand out- Dr Seuss
- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken Oscar Wilde
- I never dreamed of success, I worked for it- Estee Lauder
- It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things- Leonardo da Vinci
- Generally I like other people to fire, because it’s always a lousy talk.
- I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me- Steve Jobs
- Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle- Abraham Lincoln
- All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA- Reid Hoffman
- Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up- Pablo Picasso
- A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know- Diane Arbus
- Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people- Leo Burnett
- When you don’t dress like everyone else, you don’t have to think like everyone else- Iris Apfel
- Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions- Edgar Cay
- Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist – Sophia Amoruso
- The more you experiment, take risks and make mistakes, the better you’ll know yourself, the better you’ll know the world and the more focused you’ll be – Sophia Amoruso