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Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

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