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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.

Seth Godin

Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
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
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
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.

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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.

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