You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

Just balancing all the different projects, I mean I spent almost 10 years just doing Nasty Gal and I say "just" but that was a lot, and it's still a lot.

When you think about people, you give them power.

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.