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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Seth Godin

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
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
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own 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
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

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