Seth Godin Quotes
Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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I'm not musical myself.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!
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Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
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To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
