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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Seth Godin

There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests

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