"The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters."
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"Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know."
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"If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?"
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"The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly."
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"Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money."
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"Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct."
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"The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself."
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"Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else."
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"Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride."
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"Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend."
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"If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place."
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"If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, 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."
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"The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you."
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"At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet."
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"Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine."
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"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
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"A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do."
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"The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do."
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"The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all."
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"Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up."
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