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Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Seth Godin

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
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
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
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
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility

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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