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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.

Seth Godin

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
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
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
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
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
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
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World

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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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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