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Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.

Seth Godin

We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired

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