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Ideas that spread win.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.
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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.
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Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.
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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.
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The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
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Habits are more powerful than fears.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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