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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Seth Godin

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
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
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
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
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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Motivational Sports Winning
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
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
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
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
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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Anyway Persons Yourself

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