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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

~Dan Pink

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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

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Topics: Artists Common Entrepreneurs Give Know Missing Something World

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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.

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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Behavior Beings Believe Carrot Clear Complicated Get Hold Human Human Beings Look Many More Motivates Motivation Moving Narrow Only Over Own People Pretty Promise Research Scrutinize Simply Stick Than Too Too Many People Us Very View Way Years You Your

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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Always Best Clear Decent Effective Extremely He Look Most People Presidents Reagan Resilient Ronald Reagan Salesman Salespeople Selling Tuned Very Were You

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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.

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It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Actually Anyone Back Choices Direct High Honest Information Just Just As Much Kinds Less Lots Low More Much Option Road Selling Take Talk Transparent Ways Where World You

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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Exactly Exactly What Fan Going He Knew People Power President Put Running Simplicity Stood Think Trump I Think

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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Am Conversation Exceptions Few Great Here Hopes Live Media Now One-Way Preaching Readers Really Saving Think Very Way Work World Writers You I Am

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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Beings Best Best Work Conditions Control Giving Human Human Beings Important Kind Over People Some Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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