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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Seth Godin

If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
SETH GODIN

Jobs Raises Trouble
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
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
SETH GODIN

Differentiation Impact Noise
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
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
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
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
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
SETH GODIN

Christian Mean Motivational
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
SETH GODIN

Bases Firsts Matter
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
SETH GODIN

Better Get World
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.
SETH GODIN

Elevator Purpose Solution Want

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