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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

If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
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
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
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
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
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
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
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
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs

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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