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There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Execution, Great Idea, Ideas, Shortage

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Defending, Exhausting, Mediocrity

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

Mean, Want, Hard, Value, Charge

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

Greatness, Grow, Growing Up, Kids, Matter, Wanting

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Confess, Lines, Organization, Responsibility, Rocks

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Obscurity, Piracy, Problem

Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

Ability, Wells, Longer, Success, Told

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

Art, Unique, Impact, Touch, Personal, Created

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Breaker, Business, Committee, Conceived, Fire, People

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Honor, Criticism, Ruins, Day, Realize

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

Business, Orders, Taken, Wasted, Writing, Written

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Canaries, Canary, Coal, Fix, Mines

Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

Bad, Motivational, Negotiation, Office, Panic, People

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

Creativity, Described, Failing, Right, Thinking

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Inspirational, Work, Needs, Set, Escape, Life

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

Ineffective, Might, Probably, Unadorned, World

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Catch, Invent, Job, Jobs, Positivity, Status Quo

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Art, Passion, Combination, Linchpin

We know what you want to accomplish. . . The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

Done, Push, Real, Want, Willing

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

Early, Legend, Legends, Stopped, Wonder

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