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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Seth Godin

The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
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
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace

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