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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

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
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
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
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
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
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
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
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
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
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
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
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff

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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