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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

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
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
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
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing

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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