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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Seth Godin

Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
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
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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