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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 10
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