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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

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
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
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
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

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