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Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

“You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.”

Way Littles Has Beens Motivational Law Winning Bits Company Steps Careers Week Design Spring Training Built Gold Brands Firm Sensations Opera Medal Gold Medals Great Company Law Firms

Author:Seth Godin

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

Way Motivational Steps Series Leap Ladders Ladder Of Success

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“The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.”

Way Firsts Play Home Hate Games First Time Balls Behave Bully

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“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”

Way Problem Path Method Competition New Ways Requirements

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“It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.”

Way Facts Water Responsibility Please Right Now Pure Projects Senses Best Way Abandon Leap Abandoned Execution Urgent Reckless True Nature

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“Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.”

Way Reality Belief Nature Realizing Expectations Experience About Yourself Another Way

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“The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.”

People Way Long Self Motivation Term Long Term Self Motivation Motivated Self Motivated

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“Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.”

People Way Giving Challenges Expectations Boss Platforms Right Way Great Boss

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“If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out. Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”

“It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.”

Way Trying Difficult Effort Shortcuts

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“... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.”

Ifs Thinking Way Succeed Projects Approach Organization Outsiders Fabulous Reception

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“One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.”

Way Refuse One Way Working It

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“Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.”

Way Wells Littles Path Magic Offers Following Lit

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“The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.”

People Way Focused Thrive Surround Peers Surround Yourself Treasured Inquisitive Surround Yourself With People Outliers

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“Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.”

Way Feels Long Done Choices Found Speak Regret Long Time Critics Patient New Things Sooner Or Later Entitled Pointing Hubris Sneer Hassle Outlasting

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“Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.”

World Way Problem Path Doors Beats Problem Solving Urgent

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“You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.”

People Ifs Way Different Plenty Indispensable

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“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.”

People Way Feels One Thing Products Dating Buying Engagement Hiring

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“Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.”

Way Evolution

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“The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.”

People World Way Humans Reason Happens Environment Code Reason Why Fascinating Interaction Wet Unpredictable Misunderstood Collision Analytics

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“Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.”

Way Choices Next Difficult Mark Best Way Zuckerberg Difficult Choices

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“It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.”

Way Giving Hands Easy Chance Dangerous Safe Plunge Radar

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“You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.”

Way Today Voice Attention Share

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“In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.”

Way Art Important Ideas Seems Culture Passion Goal Perfect Edges Focused Contemporary New Ideas Bleeding Discussing Contemporary Art

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“No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?”

People Thinking Knows Way Causes Watches Behavior

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“While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.”

Way Believe May Made Reason Certain Tomorrow Succeed Yesterday No Reason

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.”

Way Opportunity Approach Unique Interaction

Book:Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.”

People Way Ideas Matter Running Used Choices Winning Air Intellectual Hot Spread Coffee Flying Consumers Shops Balloons Coffee Shop Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

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“That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Ideas Patient Spread Horrible Contact Zero Be Patient Viruses Hiv

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“You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.”

“Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -”

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“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”

People Way Needs Feels Looks Mean Happens Passion Challenges Findings Projects Passionate Things Happen Boss Make Things Happen

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.”

People Way Doe Real Winning Seeing Ego Okay Credit Best Way

Book:Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.”

Way Doe Process Figures Computer Boxes Code Repeats Again And Again Programmers Poke

Book:Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.”

Thinking Way Needs Bigs Opportunity Standing Okay Stuck Abandon Fades Tribes Headings Follow Me Fade Away Betting

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“No one knows more about the way you think than you do.”

Thinking Knows Way

Author:Seth Godin

“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

People Way Needs Years Humans Has Beens Two Ideas Interest Human Beings Leader Millions Groups Communicate Connected Two Things Tribes

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.”

Way Gone Best Way Stand For Something

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“Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.”

Way Needs Light Jobs Teach Learning Generations Shining Obvious Faster Empowering New Generation

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“I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.”

People Knows Way Needs Easy Goal Groups Humility Lead In Offending

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

Way Sells Marketing One Way Consumers Permission

Book:Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

Source: Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

“Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.”

People Way Enough Able Jobs Found Opportunity Causes Waste Pages Marketing Sentences Blogging

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“If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.”

People Ifs Way Would Be Easy Talking Vision Clear Journey Pushing Quests Persist Unlikely Yang Yin And Yang

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.”

Knows Way Persons Age Faces Culture Innovation Notion

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“When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.”

Thinking Way Important Book Form Turns Individual Rooms Imagine Design Taxes Architecture Checks Chosen Despite Comic Hotel Comic Book Website Hotel Rooms Vases

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“Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.”

People Way Findings Marketing Social Media Clever New Ways Marketers

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“If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?”

Ifs Way Worst Willing

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“The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.”

Way Spirit Sacrifice Giver

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“Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.”

Way Choices Born Talent Habit Born This Way

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