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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“you could read only that book and have all the wisdom you need probably to live a a virtuous a successful a adventurous life i mean that's one of my favorite books of all time”
“marcus realized i mean meditations that book is like i mean if you really allow yourself to slowly read and allow those words and allow those phrases to be like imprinted in your mind”— Blake Mycoskie
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Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson
“i read losing my virginity which is a great group ... one of the books that sort of kick-started me”
“i was reading a lot of richard branson's stuff and i read losing my virginity which is a great group you've never read one of the books that sort of kick-started me”— Blake Mycoskie
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The Art of Power
Thich Nhat Hanh
“i highly recommend uh that book if you if you haven't read it”
“one of them is uh it's called the art of power it's by a vietnamese buddhist monk named tottenham ... i found that that book which i've read multiple times now has had a huge huge huge influence”— Blake Mycoskie
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Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz
“both of howard schultz's books are amazing for entrepreneurs ... it really illustrates a lot of amazing things that entrepreneurs can learn from”
“his first book was called pour your heart into it it's the early story of starbucks and how it was created and i think it really illustrates a lot of amazing things that entrepreneurs can learn from”— Blake Mycoskie
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Onward
Howard Schultz
“both of howard schultz's books are amazing for entrepreneurs ... it answered a lot of questions i was having at the time”
“his second book which was a really important book for me to read at a point when which i actually left the business for a while and then came back to it was called onward”— Blake Mycoskie
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Peace Is Every Step
Thich Nhat Hanh
“is fantastic ... fantastic fantastic book”
“his first book which was kind of like meditations in the sense that it wasn't intended to be a book called i believe it's pieces every step ... is fantastic”— Tim Ferriss
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Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard
“it's it's a fantastic book um about company culture ... that i that i learned a lot from”
“is yvonne chennard who started patagonia let my people go surfing it's it's a fantastic book um about company culture it also shares some really tough times in the patagonia ups and downs”— Blake Mycoskie
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“the four-hour work week i mean i did give him a 20 earlier ... in all seriousness like that book was a huge influence as i said before which i'm super grateful for”— Blake Mycoskie
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
“i didn't have the mental toughness to get through the four hour body”— Blake Mycoskie
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TOMS Shoes
TOMS (Blake Mycoskie)
“tom's shoes this and this we sold 2200 pairs on our website before noon that day now i only had 130 pairs in my apartment”— Blake Mycoskie
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Butter Busters
Pam Mycoskie (inferred)
“so butterbusters is a cookbook that my mom wrote on a word processor in like 1993 uh literally in our kitchen that went on to sell millions and millions of copies”— Blake Mycoskie
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