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In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.

Seth Godin

Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
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
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
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 job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.

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In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.

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