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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.

Seth Godin

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
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
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
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking

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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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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