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Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Seth Godin

The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
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
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
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

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