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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Seth Godin

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
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
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
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
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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Business Fire People
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
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
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited

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