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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

Seth Godin

Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
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
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
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
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way

One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

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