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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

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
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
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting

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