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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Seth Godin

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
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
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
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
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
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
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
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
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission

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