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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.

Seth Godin

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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
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
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
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
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

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