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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Seth Godin

Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
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
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
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
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
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
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

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

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