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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

Seth Godin

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
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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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Answers Creative Findings
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
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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Aim Bother Catchy
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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Creating Value Falling Love People
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
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
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate

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