Blake Mycoskie

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.

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...

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

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

The most enduring and galvanizing ideas and values of our civilization are embedded in our stories, from those of Homer, [_] and Virgil, [_] and to Jesus. It seems to be in our genetic makeup to capture our best ideas in stories, to enjoy them, to learn form them, and to pass them on to others (25)