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[drewgneiser]

Every day, you have to give it your best shot.

Gordon Ramsay

[drewgneiser]

Grown-ups love figures...If you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof," they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: "I saw a house that cost $20,000." Then they would exclaim: "Oh, what a pretty house that is!"

-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1943)

[drewgneiser]

Newport Beach, California.

[drewgneiser]

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

[drewgneiser]

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’

– MLK Jr.

[drewgneiser]

"I've got an idea on how to sell more music: it's called make better music." -Kanye West

[drewgneiser]

If you're using frequency as a tactic to make up for the fact that you're being ignored, you can certainly do better.

- Seth Godin

[drewgneiser]

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?

-Kurt Vonnegut

[drewgneiser]

If you have a job where someone is telling you exactly what to do, they can find someone else cheaper to do it.

-Seth Godin (Behind the Brand interview on The Icarus Deception)

[drewgneiser]

Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Ibn Battuta

[drewgneiser]

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Seth Godin

[feedmystarvingchildren]

For this week only, our friends at Sevenly are selling t-shirts that benefit FMSC. Each shirt purchased will feed a child in Haiti for one month. Please check out all the designs here: Sevenly.org

[drewgneiser]

After visiting Haiti, helping the people there is personal. Check out Sevenly's campaign this week that helps feed more kids through the organization I work at.

[atinashoe-deactivated20201030]

Charitable giving has remained stuck, in the U.S., at two percent of GDP ever since we started measuring it in the 1970s. That’s an important fact, because it tells us that in 40 years, the nonprofit sector has not been able to wrestle any market share away from the for-profit sector.

Dan Pallotta, TED talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html

(via hustletobefree)

[drewgneiser]

Good marketing advice.Godin

[jarrettfuller]

I truly believe that people are looking for stories that really mean something—stories that are redemptive, inspiring, and bigger than an individual.

—Scott Harrison, founder of charity:water, from this amazing interview on The Great Discontent. (via jarrettfuller)

[uplevelyou]

[drewgneiser]

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

-Plato