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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.

Seth Godin

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
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 job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
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
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
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
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
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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

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