"Choose your customers, choose your future."
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"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure."
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"I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks."
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"And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody."
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"What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else"
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"My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's."
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"You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value."
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"It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity."
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"When your art fails, make better art."
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"Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can."
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"It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work."
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"It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters."
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"Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again."
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"Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it"
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"My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results."
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"Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals."
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"The job is not the work."
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"What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love."
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"The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it."
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