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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.

Seth Godin

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Citizens Thinking Watches
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
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
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Artist Creativity might

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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