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" Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone. "

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" Marketing is a contest for people's attention. "

" One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice. "

" I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that. "

" The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else. "

" When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. "

" If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. "

" The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest. "

" I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. "

" And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. "

" What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever. "

" Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing. "

" The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. "

" Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions. "

" A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. "

" 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. "

" If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. "

" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "

" This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. "

" If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work. "

" The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. "

" Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading. "

" I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. "

" I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else. "

" Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable. "

" If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new. "

" Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process. "

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" I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. "