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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.

Seth Godin

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
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
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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Bird Hands People
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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 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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