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Seth Godin

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
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
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
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
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
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
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
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 raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting

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