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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

Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
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
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
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
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
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
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

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

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