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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
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
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
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Artist Creativity might
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
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World

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