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Seth Godin

There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
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 less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
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
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
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
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years

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