"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
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"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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"Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying."
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"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
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"The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo."
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"As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus."
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"Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow."
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"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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"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
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"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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"You are not your resume, you are your work."
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"Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over."
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"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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"Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently."
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"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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"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
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"Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is."
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"My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills."
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"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."
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"Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't."
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