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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Seth Godin

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People

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