"Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong."
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"We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing."
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"Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it."
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"What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money."
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"Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do."
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"If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter."
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"The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe."
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"In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you."
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"Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day."
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"The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change."
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"It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity."
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"If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse."
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"No is the foundation that we can build our yes on."
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"If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do."
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"If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising."
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"Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that."
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"If you want to get in shape, go to the # gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there."
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"The conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not."
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"I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks."
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"Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."
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