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Seth Godin

The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
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
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
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
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
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
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own 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
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
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
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
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

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