"The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable."
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"Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever."
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"When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?"
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"All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works."
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"The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet)."
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"Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value."
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"Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place."
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"You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."
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"The only purpose of starting is to finish"
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"The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference."
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"I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all."
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"We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience."
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"It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you."
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"The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money."
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"Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward."
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"Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why."
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"Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place."
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"Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first."
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"Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass."
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"You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art."
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