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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Seth Godin

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
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
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
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
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
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

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