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A book is a souvenir of an idea.

Seth Godin

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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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Distance Running Tired
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
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
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work

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