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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

Seth Godin

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
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training 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
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
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People

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