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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
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
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

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