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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Seth Godin

The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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 can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
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
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way

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