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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Seth Godin

Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
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
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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
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
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
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
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
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
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
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
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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