Seth Godin Quotes
Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie.
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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
