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Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.

Seth Godin

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
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
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
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
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
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
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

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