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

Seth Godin

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
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
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
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
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

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

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