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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Seth Godin

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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
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
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
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
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

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