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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

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
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
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks

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