"The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now."
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"All Marketers are liars tell stories."
"Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency."
"If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood."
"Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it."
"In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work"
"No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced."
"You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish."
"Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable."
"Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends"
"By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late."
"Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy."
"The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible."
"If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more."
"The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does."
"If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike."
"I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing."
"Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value."
"The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity."
"If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader."