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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

Seth Godin

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
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

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