Sophia Amoruso Quotes

I have always been clear about what I wanted to do and who I wanted to dress. However, you need that business sense to help direct your talent. Because at the end of the day, you are selling clothes, and that is the reality which we live in.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

I always wanted to have my own boutiques. I'm so passionate about clothing and always have been so business-minded.

I've always been into fashion and thought it would be amazing to have a clothing line. I just never thought I would have a chance to do something like that.

I still think of myself as a retailer first, but I also know how to make clothes.

Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

I feel very lucky because I get to work in so many different areas of fashion.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

I had a fundamental love of fashion, of products and accessories. I loved the merchandising side of it and understanding how to maximize sales.

If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

50 Cent is a brilliant marketer.

Fashion was always with me since I was young. I would always be like, 'What do I want to be when I grow up?' And it hit me when I was young - I wanted to be a fashion designer.

For myself, I went into an industry I wasn't educated on, and I thought, 'Hey, yeah, let's do this. Awesome.' And I've really had to educate myself in the fashion world: undergarments, fabrics, and learning their language, but it's been really great.

I'm proud to say that I'm in advertising.

To see how much goes into making a fashion business is quite exciting.

My father has many talents, but his best is marketing.

When I'm older, if I'm successful at everything, I want to come out with a clothing line.

I went to college for fashion and, after graduating, got a job in Operations at Zara, learning the ins and outs so I could one day start my own clothing brand.

In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.

I started my clothing brand when I was 18.

Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.

I just had the absolute best luck in the world in terms of meeting The Young Bucks, and they might look like wild little rock stars who are irresponsible, but they are business geniuses. They set up the deal with Hot Topic, and they're going to be the first 7-figure downside characters that New Japan Pro Wrestling has.