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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

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
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
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
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
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen

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