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Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

Seth Godin

Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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 purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
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
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
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
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
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
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

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