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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Seth Godin

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
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
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
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning

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