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"Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else."
"Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change."
"Set up a life you don't need to escape from."
"The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here."
"Products that are remarkable get talked about."
"Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up."
"Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities."
"Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it."
"Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better."
"You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones."
"Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway."
"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them."
"The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here."
"You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must."
"Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler."
"Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams."
"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."
"Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all."
"Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process."
"People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel."