Seth Godin Quotes
It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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There are still great artists in the country format.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.
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I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!
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It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.
