Seth Godin Quotes
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
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I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
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What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.
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Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
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There doesn't need to be a God for me.
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.
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What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.
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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
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When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
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If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
