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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.

Seth Godin

Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
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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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry

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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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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