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Fight Against Something And You Focus On The Thing You Hate. Fight For Something And You Focus On The Thing You Love.

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It Is Better To Disappoint People With The Truth Than To Appease Them With A Lie.

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The Creatives Are Rarely Professional And The Professionals Are Rarely Creative.

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Would Anybody Be Offended If We Gave A $150 Million Bonus To Gandhi? How About A $250 Million Bonus To Mother Teresa? Do We Have An Issue With That? None At All. None At All. Great Leaders Would Never Sacrifice The People To Save The Numbers. They Would Sooner Sacrifice The Numbers To Save The People.

The Single Best Machine To Measure Trust Is A Human Being. We Haven't Figured Out A Metric That Works Better Than Our Own Sort Of, Like, 'there's Something Fishy About You.'

Good Marketing Offers Us A View Of The World. Bad Marketing Offers Us A Product To Buy.

Great Leaders Don't See Themselves As Great; They See Themselves As Human.

The True Price Of Leadership Is The Willingness To Place The Needs Of Others Above Your Own. Great Leaders Truly Care About Those They Are Privileged To Lead And Understand That The True Cost Of The Leadership Privilege Comes At The Expense Of Self-interest.

Some People Are Born Good-looking. Some Have The Gift Of Gab. And Some Are Lucky Enough To Be Born Smarter Than The Rest Of Us. Whether We Like It Or Not, Mother Nature Does Not Dole These Characteristics Out Evenly.

The Irony Is, The Advertising Industry Knows Everyone Hates What They Produce. This Is Why They Keep Looking For New Ways To Force People To Stay Tuned.

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Progress Is More Important Than Perfection.

There Are Two Types Of Claims: Those Based On Hard Numbers And Those Based On Slippery Numbers.

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The Irony Is That The Best Thing We Can Do Is, Well One Option, Is To Quit Job We Don't Like. You Don't Always Have To Quit, And Quite Frankly, Option Two Is To Try To Help Others Solve The Problem That You Are Struggling With.

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