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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Seth Godin

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
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 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
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

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