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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.

Seth Godin

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur 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
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
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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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth

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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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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