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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

Seth Godin

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
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
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
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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
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
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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Motivational Opportunity Winning
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work

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