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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Seth Godin

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
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.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
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
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
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
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher

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