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"Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky."
"Good marketers tell a story."
"There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference."
"Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading."
"Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death."
"What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances."
"Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them."
"If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late."
"People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive."
"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
"It's not an accident that successful people read more books."
"Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one."
"The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears."
"Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future."
"Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it."
"You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless."
"Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean."
"One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can."
"We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy."
"You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself."