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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.

Seth Godin

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
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
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
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
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice

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