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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.

Seth Godin

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Citizens Thinking Watches
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 less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
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

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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