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The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Seth Godin

There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
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
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter

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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