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As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.

Seth Godin

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
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
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise 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 internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
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
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance

As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.

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