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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Seth Godin

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
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
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
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
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
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use

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