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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

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
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
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
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
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs

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