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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Seth Godin

A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
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
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 job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
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 find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
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
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
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
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
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters

Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

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