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

Seth Godin

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
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
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
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
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
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
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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
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

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