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Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

Seth Godin

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
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
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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 only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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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Believe Risk Want
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
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
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable

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