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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

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
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
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

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