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The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

Seth Godin

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
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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Choices Pain Saying Yes
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Citizens Thinking Watches
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
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 best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
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
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
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
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself

The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

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