If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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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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As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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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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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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