Art is a personal act of courage. Votes: 6
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity. Votes: 0
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup. Votes: 0
Good marketers tell a story. Votes: 0
Good marketers measure. Votes: 0
I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did. Votes: 0
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless. Votes: 0
Dig your well before you're thirsty. Votes: 0
Why waste a sentence saying nothing? Votes: 0
A book is a souvenir of an idea. Votes: 0
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. Votes: 0
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work. Votes: 0
All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at #" camp Votes: 0
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Votes: 0
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on. Votes: 0
Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy. Votes: 0
Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late. Votes: 0
Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. Votes: 0
Competence is no longer scarce. Votes: 0
Competence is the enemy of change! Votes: 0
Defending mediocrity is exhausting. Votes: 0
Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage. Votes: 0
Everyone is not your customer. Votes: 0
Following instructions is overrated. Votes: 0
Go ahead, do something impossible. Votes: 0
Habits are more powerful than fears. Votes: 0
I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right. Votes: 0
I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved. Votes: 0
Ideas that spread win. Votes: 0
If I fail more than you do, I win. Votes: 0
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 Votes: 0
If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable. Votes: 0
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning? Votes: 0
If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world Votes: 0
If you measure it, it will improve. Votes: 0
If you want to be a leader, go lead Votes: 0
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. Votes: 0
If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more. Votes: 0
If you're short on passion, it might be because your #" goals are too small or the #" fear ... Votes: 0
Keep starting until you finish. Votes: 0
Kings fear change. Leaders crave it. Votes: 0
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change. Votes: 0
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. Votes: 0
Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first. Votes: 0
Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world. Votes: 0
Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency. Votes: 0
Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself. Votes: 0
New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct. Votes: 0
No niche is too small if it's yours. Votes: 0
No one is as smart as all of us Votes: 0
Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy. Votes: 0
Playing safe is very risky. Votes: 0
Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient. Votes: 0
Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about. Votes: 0
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite. Votes: 0
Skepticism doesn't help you hear. Votes: 0
Soon is not as good as now. Votes: 0
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently. Votes: 0
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else. Votes: 0
Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise. Votes: 0
Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up. Votes: 0
The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods. Votes: 0
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately. Votes: 0
The enemy of creativity is fear. Votes: 0
The enemy of fear is creativity. Votes: 0
The job is not the work. Votes: 0
The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way. Votes: 0
The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe. Votes: 0
The person who fails the most wins. Votes: 0
The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. Votes: 0
The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people. Votes: 0
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It's a process, not an event. Votes: 0
The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money Votes: 0
There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them. Votes: 0
There's no map for being an artist. Votes: 0
Think big. Start small. Votes: 0
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress. Votes: 0
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it. Votes: 0
We fail when we give up too soon. Votes: 0
We notice what we choose to notice. Votes: 0
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love. Votes: 0
What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care. Votes: 0
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job? Votes: 0
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value. Votes: 0
When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right. Votes: 0
When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself Votes: 0
Whining isn't a scalable solution. Votes: 0
Who gets to decide what you want? Votes: 0
You can't lose. Go, go, go! Votes: 0
You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful. Votes: 0
You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. Votes: 0
You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you. Votes: 0
You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important. Votes: 0