"You don't launch a popular blog, you build one."
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"Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -"
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"How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading."
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"If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position."
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"Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters."
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"Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better."
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"The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry."
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"Criticism comes to those who stand out."
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"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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"The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys."
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"People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"Art is a personal act of courage."
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"Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk."
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"But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try."
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"Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn."
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"Why waste a sentence saying nothing?"
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"Soon is not as good as now."
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"Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it."
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"Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change."
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"Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it."
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