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What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
Author
Blogger
Computer Scientist
Economist
Entrepreneur
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
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Ships
Motivational
Creative

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Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
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The answer to the question where do good ideas come from is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
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