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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.
The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.
One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.
It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.
The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp
Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself
I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.