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1. 16 Thought-Provoking Quotes
From Today’s

2. Seth Godin

3. There are no longer any
great jobs where
someone else tells you
precisely what to do.

4. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.
Tell yourself enough valid stories about the
worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll
soon come to believe them. Worry is not
preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you
better.

5. How was your day?
If your answer was "fine,"
then I don't think you were leading.

8. Simon
Sinek

9. It is not the genius at the top giving directions that
make people great. It is great people that make the
guy at the top look like a genius.

10. You have to be careful what you think you know.

11. There are only two ways to
influence human behavior: you
can manipulate it or you can
inspire it.

12. People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do
it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.

13. Larry Keeley

14. Every single employee of every
single company needs to stand in
the future and embrace it – no
matter how difficult or scary it
feels or how impossible a goal
seems to achieve.

15. Innovation mostly fails.
It doesn’t need to.
Don’t let it.

16. Target big, gnarly problems with no easy answer. This
isn’t about what’s easy for you; it’s about solving
deep problems for your customers.

17. See where your competitors are focusing –
and then make different choices.

18. Chris Brogan

19. Own your words. Your words are the
maps to your intentions.

20. Complexity serves nothing but our
ego. Be able to say what you do in a
way that people can understand.

21. Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books.
If you don’t like the menu, leave the
restaurant. If you’re not on the right
path, get off it.

22. This is your moment. Draw up your plans,
simple ones, and go after them. Take a
shot. And if it doesn’t work, take another,
and another, and win.

24. Thanks
for
reading.