10 Speeches that

Online Marketers Need to Hear

“Service is love made visible. If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve only money. And if you love only yourself you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself. So no more winning, instead, try to love others and serve others, and hopefully find those who will love and serve you in return.”

Stephen Colbert - 2011 at Northwestern University

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tiaooiIo0

David Foster Wallace - 2005 at Kenyon College

”There are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about in the great outside world of wanting and achieving [...]. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGaXzJGVAQ

J.K. Rowling - 2008 at Harvard University

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation; in its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

Ellen Degeneres - 2009 at Tulane University

“For me, the most important thing in life is to live your life with integrity, and not to give into peer pressure. to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way. So to conclude my conclusion: follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JccudODwwY

Carol Bartz - 2012 at UW Madison

“I think the greatest strength that we have in the US and especially in Silicon Valley is that we actually view failure as a sign of experience. We view failure as a way of life and those people are willing to take on risks on the road to innovation. I have a saying that I have used at my companies: Fail. Fast forward. Take risks. Fail. You’re not going to get hurt by that. Try and figure it out as quickly as possible that it is not the right thing. That’s the fast part. And move forward. Fail. Fast forward. Do not be afraid to take risks. Most of all, be really passionate and excited about what is in front of you.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYWHVv4vRVU

Steve Jobs - 2005 at Stanford University

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Denzel Washington - 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania

“In deciding what you want to do with life, people have told you to make sure you have something to “fall back on.” But I’ve never understood that concept, having something to fall back on. If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything [...] I want to fall forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.Here’s what I mean: Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn’t either - because #1,001 was the light bulb.Fall forward.Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpW2sGlCtaE

Steve Ballmer - 2014 at USC

“I have to reinforce this notion that ideas matter. People think business is about leadership, they think it’s about working hard, they think it’s about a lot of things - which it is. But at the end of the day the ideas that you have will power the organizations that you join. They will create the value. A great team, great energy and great hard work will never make up for a bad idea.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMgAoSQpbI

Sheryl Sandberg - 2012 at Harvard Business School

“Motivation comes from working on things we care about but it also comes from working with people we care about, and in order to care about someone, you have to know them. You have to know what they love and hate, what they feel, not just what they think. If you want to win hearts and minds, you have to lead with your heart as well as your mind. I don’t believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time. That kind of division probably never worked, but in today’s world, with a real voice, an authentic voice, it makes even less sense.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMgAoSQpbI

Arianna Huffington - 2011 at Sarah Lawrence College

“A key component of wisdom is fearlessness, which is not the absence of fear, but rather not letting our fears get in the way. I remember one of the low points in my life, when my second book was rejected by 37 publishers. [...]Instead, I remember running out of money and walking, depressed, down St. James Street in London and seeing a Barclays Bank. I walked in and, armed with nothing but a lot of chutzpah, I asked to speak to the manager and asked him for a loan. Even though I didn't have any assets, the banker [...] gave me a loan. It changed my life, because it meant I could keep things together for another 13 rejections.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMgAoSQpbI

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