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"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."

"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."

"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."

"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."

"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."

"Passion is never enough neither is skill."
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"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."


"That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing."


"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."


"If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever."


"I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue."


"Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive."


"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting."


"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."


"Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me."
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