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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

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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Citizens Thinking Watches
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
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
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
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
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
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
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
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
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

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