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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.
The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.
Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?
Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.
The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.
You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.
If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.
It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.
People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.