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Sam Conniff

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Sam Conniff Allende is a multi-award winning serial social entrepreneur, and co-founder and former CEO of Livity, Don’t Panic and Live Magazine. Since starting his entrepreneurial career aged 19, Conniff Allende has mentored thousands of talented young entrepreneurs and hustlers around the world.

Sam is an acclaimed public speaker, an advocate of ‘business as unusual’ or corporate responsibility and accountability, and a purpose-driven strategy consultant to brands such as Red Bull, Unilever and PlayStation.

Sam has refined the concepts explored in Be More Pirate by delivering workshops to senior executives in the HQ’s of Google and Facebook, and to hundreds of socially conscious young entrepreneurs and innovators from the townships of South ...more

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	Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win 3.71 avg rating — 1,385 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to: Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author), Alex Barker 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to be More Pirate by Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author), Alex Barker 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to: Be More Pirate by Alex Barker, Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be More Pirate, So Good They Cant Ignore You, Life Leverage, How To Be Fcking Awesome 4 Books Collection Set by Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author), Cal Newport, Dan Meredith it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unicorn Theory: The say Unicorns are magic, but really that's gimmicks, the secret of their power, is just quantum physics. by Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author), Scarlett Conniff Allende 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uncertainty Toolkit: Worry Less and Do More by Learning to Cope with the Unknown by Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author), Katherine Templar-Lewis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be more pirate,7 habits of highly effective people,personal workbook 3 books collection set by Stephen R. Covey, Sam Conniff (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Try telling the truth for a whole week.
And just see how much trouble you get in.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: change, change-your-life, good-trouble, pirates, rebels, rulebreaking, trouble, truth, truth-of-life

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“Rulebreakers are like great artists, sometimes we don’t recognise what they give us until it’s too late.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: artists, change, pirates, rebels, rulebreaking

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“Imagination is a deadly weapon, it pays to keep it sharp.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: bemorepirate, change, change-your-life, imagination, pirates

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“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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“There’s only one thing more stupid than stupid rules, and that’s the people who follow them.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: be-more-pirate, pirate, rules, sam-conniff, sam-conniff-allende

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“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate”
― Bernard Williams

tags: be-more-pirate, inspirational-quotes, personal-development, pirate, strategy

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“Rulebreakers are like great artists, sometimes we don’t recognise what they give us until it’s too late.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: artists, change, pirates, rebels, rulebreaking

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“The more powerful the person you meet, the more surprising it is to find out they’re just making it up, just like the rest of us.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

tags: change, change-your-life, pirates, rebels, rulebreaking

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