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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Seth Godin

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
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
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
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

Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

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