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If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

Seth Godin

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
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
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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 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
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time

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